Welcome to The Escape.

A luxury superyacht. A once-in-a lifetime opportunity to get away.
Until the first passenger goes...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between...

The Penguin English Library edition

When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes,...

'There's a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it,...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet is the literary debut of the world's most famous fictional detective, Sherlock...

Emily is happy with her life just as it is.

She loves her career as a midwife, and enjoys living on her own - but can't help...

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'

Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy,...

The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the...

After eighteen years in the Bastille prison, Dr Manette finally leaves France and goes to live with his daughter, Lucie, in...

The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers

'Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme...

Everyone hates the perfect family.

So you'll love the Battles.

Meet Mo Battle, about to turn 50 and mum to two helpless,...

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our...

Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To...

Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short...

One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years...

Mercenary. Survivor. Queen.

Casia Greythorne's world has been shattered. Still reeling from a devastating loss and the...

Borges' first collection of stories (1935). In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun....

Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit...

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced...

A classic of intergalactic, metaphysical science fiction and one of Philip Pullman's favourite books

After journeying across...

The moving and uplifting account of one man's journey, walking 3,000 miles around the UK to combat his depression

After coming...

Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North Pole, deserts to...

Romance, friendship, joy and the possibility of happy endings: the heartwarming new novel by number one bestseller, Katie...

Seven Londoners are invited to an opulent dinner party. From a brutal hedge-funder to a lovelorn barrister, a Polish footballer...

'To love, to sacrifice oneself, and to submit! Was this what all women were destined for?'

When her carefree, aspirational...

The writings of one of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century - the 'female Lawrence of Arabia' - and the subject...

New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been...

Meg's father has disappeared, and her family wants him back. One day, Meg and her little brother meet three strange women. The...

The bestselling, much-loved classic account of an English couple escaping to enjoy the fruits of French rural summer living - an...