James Lovelock's bestselling The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we can Still Save Humanity is a dire...

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The History of Love by...

A hauntingly beautiful social history of the Thames Estuary, from the author of On Brick Lane.

Out at the eastern edge of...

Brick Lane today is a place of extremes - a street that's constantly reinventing itself. Blending history and reportage with...

Paris, 1937. Andras Levi, an architecture student, has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a...

Words of joy, love, devotion and celebration

Deciding how to express your feelings on one of the most important days of your...

London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city

Encircling London...

The Book of Dave is Booker-shortlisted author Will Self's dazzling sixth novel

What if a demented London cabbie called Dave...

Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with...

Wild describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. It...

Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to...

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and...

The Ladies' Delight is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director...

An electrifying modern classic - Kneale's sweeping adventure story vividly brings a past age to life

In 1857 when Captain...

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

'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...

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...

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...

In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs....

Boll... , Aichinger...

Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form...

The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby’s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In...

Braungart... , McDonough...

A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the...

The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover the classic dystopian masterpiece beautifully reimagined by...

Madrid, 1957.
Daniel, young, wealthy and unsure of his place in the world, views the city through the lens of his camera.
Ana,...

A producer. A novelist. An actress.
It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert...

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

If it had happened to you, you would have run away too.
Twenty-five years ago, Paul's friend Charlie Crabtree brutally killed...

'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of...