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A haunting tale of a fourteen-year-old boy's coming of age in a political dystopia, with an introduction by Colm Tуibнn

Death...

The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of being a hero. He plans to survive this war, whatever it...

The problem with Wales, he thought, was that it was too far away.
But that was the point. To leave Southend behind. To get so...

Retired teacher Edgar Hopkins lives for the thrill of winning poultry prizes. But his narrow world is shattered when he learns...

'Rugby is great for the soul,' he writes, 'but terrible for the body.'

Rugby hurts. It demands mental resilience and...

Daisy and Hazel are finally back at Deepdean, and the school is preparing for a most exciting event: the fiftieth...

Driven mad by three years of endless phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these...

One morning in war-torn Damascus, a starving man drags a piano into a rubbled street. Everything he once knew has been destroyed...

In the annals of military history, the Western Front stands as an enduring symbol of the folly and futility of war.

However,...

On the cusp of adulthood, three young people are about to make the most momentous decision of their lives.

Anita lives in...

Our lives are pretty stressful, from the mountains of work emails to the never-ending life admin, finding time to see friends and...

A Waterstones Paperback of the Year!

What happens when you feel stressed? Maybe you start sweating, or your heart beats...

Charlie McGuffin has an incredible secret . . .

He can change into animals. All sorts of animals: a flea, a pigeon, even a...

Inspiring, funny story from the creators of picture book sensation Look Up!, calling children to action in a science-focused...

Arty has always lived in the Clearing, a commune hidden in the forests of south India. But her happy life, separate from the rest...

Make a loved one smile with this classic Christmas read - a perfect stocking filler

'Christmas Day was organized by Lady...

The incredible sequel to sci-fi thriller Warcross by bestselling author Marie Lu.

Return to the immersive, action-packed world...

A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to See

Rome, 1944. Robert is a...

A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love.

At a Hollywood party, a...

'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening'

To...

'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others'

Tod Hackett is a...

'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'

Hidden away in the Record Department...

'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am...

'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in...

'The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in...

'All children, except one, grow up.'

It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the...

'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'

The French Terror is raging, and few are safe...

' "Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but...

The gripping, jaw-dropping rise and fall of Sir Philip Green, the self-styled 'king of the high street'

Sir Philip Green is no...