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Gridlock is when a city dies.

Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide...

This is a story of East and West. A story of love, betrayal, and lost illusions...

The end of the Cold War seems unimaginable...

The Quick

A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the...

'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames'

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life,...

The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess...

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what...

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

A murder. A world in crisis. Britain's greatest spy . . .

It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the...

Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he...

'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference'

Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow...

In his first novel, Werner Herzog tells a hypnotic tale inspired by the true story of a Japanese soldier who defended a small...

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

"Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each...

Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues;...

A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies' hat shop. A teacher dreams of...

In Sodom and Gomorrah Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the...

In the two novels - The Captive and The Fugitive - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's...

It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war . . .

This is the story of a home...

Fred Daniels, a black man, is randomly picked up by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago suburb. Taken to the local...

In a magical forest full of busy birds and buzzy bugs, there stands a giant oak tree. This is where the fairy families...

It's Midsummer's Eve and Meg can't wait to see their friends!

But, Mog has fallen off Meg's broom! Meg and friends form a...

A set of 6 much-loved stories from classic English literature for children, brought together by Puffin Classics in beautiful...

Would you mistake Mog for a tiger? The zoo keepers did and tried to catch him, but it wasn't as easy as they had thought!
The...

A set of 6 much-loved stories from classic English literature for children, brought together by Puffin Classics in beautiful...

Our early years at home are when we lay down the blueprint for being a partner, parent, sibling, friend, colleague, neighbour,...

A baffling case. A mysterious inheritance.

It starts when a man's arm is fished out of Paris's Canal Saint-Martin. Then the...

Trust no one.

It is six months since the Arcadia set sail for the first time in forty years. But this wasn't the freedom the...

'For the enemy is not troll, nor is it dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who...

War is brewing on the Discworld.

An island has appeared from the ocean depths, right in the middle of the sea which separates...