'It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.'
After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored...

Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and...

A Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marias, whose...

The first volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades

'On a February day in...

The second volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades

'There was magic...

The third volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades
'The whole tale is one...

Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely...

Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the...

Always run, never fight.
Preserve the knowledge.
Survive at all costs.
Take them to the stars.

Germany, 1945.

Mia, a...

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt...

'The most reliable and comprehensive account of the Great Plague that we possess' Anthony Burgess

In 1665 the plague swept...

The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

Barry Hines's A...

With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave...

Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons...

The last time anyone saw Lucia Bernardi, she was driving at top speed away from a Swiss villa - leaving the body of her murdered...

It takes a long time to plan the perfect revenge.

Hannah has been working on it for decades.

It has to look like they...

Utterly compulsive, totally original and with a truly jaw-on-the-floor twist, this is a thriller like no other

Charming and...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new...

The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She...

Sybille Bedford's first novel, A Legacy is a savage indictment of the brutality and anti-Semitism spawned in German officer-cadet...

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has...

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is...

Discover this thrilling exploration of love, life and morality from the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse

She...

With such varied correspondents as T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell, for nearly forty years George Orwell wrote...

In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating...

By the global bestselling author, Anthony Horowitz, the third novel in his acclaimed Hawthorne and Horowitz series. The Russian...

'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story...

'Teetotal!' Ma said. 'It's a libel. He'll never live it down. He'll never be able to hold his head up again. Whatever will people...

Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting...

As Minister for Culture, the Honourable M. A. Nanga is 'a man of the people', as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish...