Afternoon eighteen years as a prisoner in the Bastille, Dr Manettee settles in London with his long-lost daughter Lucie. But their tranquil existence is shattered when the family is drawn back to Paris, a city in the grip of the Terror. In Dicken's great...

Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job, which takes him to Madna - a town with the highest...

Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who...

Agatha Christie's seasonal mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched...

Ailesse and her friends change the afterlife in the gripping conclusion to the fantasy duology that began with Bone Crier's Moon fromand New York Times bestsellingand author Kathryn Purdie-perfect for fans of Stephanie Garber and Roshani Chokshi. Now available in paperback.Love is a matter...

Ak Khuda Ak Paigham by and Abdul Aziz Sanghera

Albinus - rich, married middle-aged and respectable - is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces himself he is irresistible to her, but Margot has other plans. She wants to...

Alice has just returned to London from months of travelling abroad. She is late to hear the news that her father is dying, and arrives at the family home only just in time to say goodbye. Daniel hasn't had a roof over his head...

Alice Oswald's poems are always vivid and distinct, alert and deeply, physically, engaged in the natural world. Mutability - a sense that all matter is unstable in the face of mortality - is at the heart of this new collection and each poem is...

All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...'A selection taken from Walt Whitman'sand Leaves of GrassIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many...

All seven Level 2 Ready-to-Reads of The 7 Habits of Happy Kids series from Sean Covey and Stacy Curtis are now available together in a collectible paperback boxed set! Join Pokey, Allie, Jumper, Sammy, Lily, Sophie, and Goob as they learn the importance of...

All the King's Men is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Set in the 1930s, this book traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey 'Kingfish' Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an...

Altamaash the entertainer misstepped on to history's stage to become a politician and created a lifetime's worth of chaos and destruction in Pakistan. Now exiled to a London mansion, abandoned even by sycophants, Al yearns to relive the glory days of his rise to...

'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!'A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers.Introducing Little...

Amal, Hammoudi and Youssef are young and ambitious, the face of modern Syria. But when civil war tears through their homeland, they are left with a horrifying choice: risk death by staying in the country they love, or flee in search of a new...

Ambush

Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The Later Roman Empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years during Marcellinus' own lifetime, covering the reigns of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian I, and Valens, and...

Amy Poeppel brings her signature "big-hearted, charming" (The Washington Post) style to this wise and joyful novel that celebratesand love, hate, and all of the glorious absurdity in between.In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby--belonging to...

An absolutely witty, swoon worthy behind the scenes romp! Delightful from beginning to end!' Julie Murphy, No.1and New York Timesand bestselling author ofand Dumplin'Olivia Dade returns with another utterly charming romantic comedy about a devil-may-care actorand -and who cares more than anyone knowsand -and...

An Acceptable Time, the final book in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet, the series that began with the Newbery Award winnerand A Wrinkle in Time.and While spending time with her grandparents, Alex and Kate Murry, Polly O'Keefe wanders into a time 3,000 years before her...

An addictive, irresistible YA novel about two teens from different worlds who fall for each other after a voter registration call turns into a long-distance romance-from Katie Cotugno, theand New York Timesand bestselling author ofand 99 Days. Perfect for fans of Mary H.K. Choi,...

'An ambitious, cinematic thriller' Observer'Stunning' Publishers Weekly'Absolutely captivating' BooklistWhat if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat?From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under...

An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced that the disaster is a...

An anthology of 36 astonishing personal stories and essays from some of America's best writers that first appeared in Portland Magazine, "the best university magazine in America" (Newsweek).

An anthology of essays exploring the origins of the authors' relationships to their favorite superheroes; including stories from Neil Gaiman, Jodi Picoult, Brad Meltzer, Joe Lansdale and more! As broad as our exponentially growing cultural fascination with caped crusaders is, it runs just as...

An ArtFolds book is a hardcover book that is transformed into a unique paper sculpture merely by folding pages, based on our exclusive, patent-pending instructions. The process is fun and easy and takes surprisingly little time, making it as appropriate for children as it...

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness - between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves - from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón.'I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,' writes...

An astonishing novel that is beautifully written but underpinned by a quiet simmering anger about injustice and unrealistic expectations of a family - and of life in contemporary India' Peter Frankopan'A shattering study of disaffection and belonging . This is a concise novel of...

An astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of homosexual relationships in an era when love between men was not only stigmatised, but also illegal, E.M. Forster'sand Mauriceand is edited by P.N. Furbank with an introduction by David Leavitt in Penguin Classics.Maurice Hall is a...

An eerily familiar reflection of our current moment ... It continues to haunt me' NATASHA BROWN,and I PAPERand BOOKS OF THE YEAR'I will go wherever she takes me. A phenomenal book' DAISY JOHNSON'A brilliant, scalding novel ... sharp, intricately layered, impossible to forget' MEGAN...

An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home…Everyone blamed Emily's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was...

An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living...

An enchanting story, masterfully told,and The House in the Cerulean Seaand by TJ Klune is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place - and realizing that family could be yours. I loved it. It is like being wrapped...

An engaging comedy of love, The Two Gentlemen of Verona deals with the conflict between friendship and romance, and features one of Shakespeare's most memorable clowns. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Norman Sanders with an introduction by Russell Jackson. 'Except I be...

An enthralling prequel to his bestselling Roma Sub Rosa series of mysteries set in the Ancient World, Steven Saylor takes readers back to the younger days of Gordianus the Finder. The year is 92BC and Gordianus has just turned eighteen and is about to...

Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older--a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven...

An ever-surprising and stylistically diverse anthology that will surely stand as the touchstone collection of Korean literature for decades to come'and Literary ReviewThis eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the...

An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American proseSherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue...

An explosive feminist and anti-racist novel about the importance of friendship.We don't exist in this world. Here, we are neither Germans nor refugees, we don't report the news and we aren't the experts. We're some sort of wildcard.Hani, Kasih, and Saya have shared a...

An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author ofand Small Things Like Theseand andand Foster.'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.'and The TimesAfter an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind...

An exquisite story bursting at the seams with summer, hope and love' MILLY JOHNSON'Warm, escapist and utterly uplifting, this is Veronica Henry at her very best' LUCY DIAMOND'Gorgeous. A joy to read from start to finish' JILL MANSELL'Uplifting, inspiring and guaranteed to make you...

An extraordinary novel about one of history's most reviled figuresSelected as one of The 50 best books of 2022 byand The TelegraphFor three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific...

An immersive, intoxicating summer read with the long-lasting feel of a classic' - Molly Aitken, author ofand The Island Child'A potent blend of art, beauty, awakening desire and mortality that seduces the reader' -and Daily MailSummer, 1973.and Teenage Ruth and her four friends spend...

'An incredibly important and empowering read' Natasha Ngan, author of Girls of Paper and Fire A New York Times bestselling dark speculative feminist thriller, perfect for fans of The Power and The Handmaid's Tale. _____________________________________________ THE RESISTANCE STARTS HERE. No one speaks of the...

An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer and a world-class conductor. My only purpose in this book was for me, as a music lover, to have a discussion of music with the musician Seiji Ozawa that was as open...

An intimate look at the inner landscape of a disintegrating marriage and a dramatic exploration of the price of war. Kristin Hannah's Home Front is a provocative and timely portrait of hope, honour, loss, forgiveness - and the elusive nature of love.From a distance,...

An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author ofand The Girl on the Train'Matsumoto was Japan's Agatha Christie' Laura Hackett,and The Sunday Times'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.'In a...

ANand OBSERVER,and TIME MAGAZINEand andamp;and NEW YORK TIMESand BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2020A REESE WITHERSPOON'S BOOK CLUB PICKand 'Vivid, witty and utterly absorbing.'and Daily MailIn one of the most talked about and hilarious debuts of the year, Afi Tekple, a bright young seamstress from...

Anderson profoundly changed the American short story, transforming it from light, popular entertainment into literature of the highest quality. His art belonged as much to an oral as a written tradition, and, as this collection shows, the best of his stories echo the language...

"Of course,and noand one would want to say anything about a girl like this that's missing..." 'Malice, paranoia and creeping dread lie beneath the surface of ordinary American life in these chilling miniature masterworks of unease.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit...