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New Penguin Essentials edition of the heartbreaking classic of the roaring twenties, Tender is the Night by F. Scott...

Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in...

The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady

In June 1983 Margaret...

The smash-hit romantic comedy from the author of The Girls and Then She Was Gone

Six people, one big house and the party that...

The Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and...

Recently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by our environment. But this denies the heart of our being:...

For centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had the largest empire and one of the world's...

'A reference bible... inspirational in the way that it opens up new possibilities for vegetables' - Daily Mail Jane Grigson's...

When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter...

Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection...

Little... , Silber...

The Death of Yugoslavia is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia, considered...

A very clear, reliable and readable history of economic thought from the ancient world to the present day. From Homer to Marx to...

In this very funny sports book (a cross between Nick Hornby and Bill Bryson) young journalist Lawrence Donegan tells the story of...

After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor

In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely...

Discover the heartfelt, laugh-out-loud account of one of Hollywood's greatest actors and, above all, greatest men

Debonair...

The first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in...

In Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life Jeremy Paxman creates the perfect literary catch for fellow angling enthusiasts in this...

Find inspiration from one of the most important books in the world's literature…

The I Ching is a book of oracles containing...

The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Professor Eugen Herrigel in this...

In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences,...

A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts...

Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept...

Virginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions,...

A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is a young girl, Rachel Vinrace,...

A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew...

Every day, in every court and tribunal, advocates represent us all - Crown and defendant, landlord and tenant, rich and poor,...

The Quincunx is an epic Dickensian-like mystery novel set in 19th century England, and concerns the varying fortunes of young...

With this novel Sharon Penman moves to a new set of characters and to 12th Century England and the early civil war between...

The sixth of nine volumes in the major Penguin History of Britain series, A Monarchy Transformed narrates the tempestuous...

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and...