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...

What would you do if your husband became another person overnight?

When Molly married Alex Frazer, she knew it was for...

On the night before Christmas, Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. But when Cross's phone rings, he...

Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted...

Certain details of the case were etched more sharply than others in Maigret's memory. Even years later he could recall the...

'Maigret had questioned thousands, tens of thousands of people in the course of his career, some occupying important positions,...

Conflict rather than harmony probably reigned in eight out of ten of the still magnificent houses that surrounded the park. But...

Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series.

'That shoeless foot...

'You're a good soul, inspector, and when you're up against the second-rate criminals you get here in Paris, you're a crack...

'What else did they have to do with their days? They ambled around casually. From time to time, they paused, not because they...

'Maigret looked at him in some confusion, wondering if he waas dealing with a skilful actor or, on the contrary, with a sickly...

Standing here at the window in the middle of the morning, vaguely observing the comings and goings in the street, he had a...

For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office where he learns that he has...