'Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm off from an anointed king'
Richard, a vain, despotic ruler, listens...

Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a consuming...

Arthur Miller's penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question: What would...

Twins Anna and Adam live in an abandoned commune in a volatile landscape where they prepare for the world-ending event they...

Discover the brilliant, hilarious and unlikely story of a woman's life rebuilt, from the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole...

The final thrilling part of the New York Times bestselling trilogy, Reached is the sequel to Matched and Crossed by Ally Condie....

Tom Chamberlain was destined to be a soldier from the moment he discovered a faded picture of his father patrolling the streets...

"Look after the dead," said the priests, "and the dead would look after you."
Young Prince Teppic is sent far away from his...

Poet's Pub is the classic comic novel by Eric Linklater, set in an English pub. When an Oxford poet named Saturday Keith assumes...

It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving...

With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his...

One of Bernard Shaw’s most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and...

Alice goes after a white rabbit into Wonderland. There she meets the Mad Hatter, the Duchess and many other famous people and...

When Jack and Joan Durbeyfield learn that their ancestors were the d'Urbervilles - a rich and well-known family - they hope it...

In these stories, Joyce describes the lives of ordinary Dubliners. Their lives are not always easy, and they have problems with...

Tohme... , Worner...

Has the office gone for ever? This book looks at the positive and negative sides of working remotely for employees, managers and...

Catherine Sloper is not pretty or clever, but she is rich. She lives in New York with her father, the respected doctor, Austin...

Newland Archer is going to marry the sweet, pretty May Welland. Everyone thinks that they are perfect together. Then, May's...

Frankie is nearly fourteen and teenage life certainly comes with its ups and downs. Her mum is seriously ill with MS and Frankie...

There are cities everywhere on Earth. More and more people live in cities around the world. But more and more animals make their...

A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey...

Passion, war and deadly secrets . . .

Wartime France, 1944

Trust absolutely no one.

This is the only advice newly...

An Englishman's home is his castle. But what if it's French?

One Place de L'Eglise is a thousand-year-old Languedoc ruin....

'I can feel the passage of time, as though it were coursing through my veins, along with my blood...'
One June day in 1955...

'Stop it! You're all behaving like animals! Worse than animals - like blankers!'

Sephy is a Cross: dark-skinned and...

You knew Hollywood would be difficult.

So when you land a job in television, you're ready for anything: pulling all-nighters,...

Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though one hundred years old - says as much about...

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and...

After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes...

Yip Tolroy and his fiery Mama run the general store in Heron's Creek, Georgia. An uneventful life, until gold is discovered...