The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail

British Rail wasn't how we're...

It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting,...

Eleanor Bennett won't let her secrets die with her . . .

When Eleanor's estranged children Benny and Byron reunite for her...

Anna Sewell's moving story is one of the best-loved animal adventures ever written, this Penguin Threads edition of Black Beauty...

Whether you long for the partner who broke up with you, or the one you dream of meeting; whether you hunger for the happy...

Calm anxiety through connection. Find happiness through purpose. Feel comfort in the universal.
Think bigger to unlock you.
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When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more...

Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate...

Perhaps no fairy tale is as widely known as 'Beauty and the Beast' - and perhaps no fairy tale exists in as many variations....

Garcia... , Штоль...

Some loves are meant to be. Others are cursed . . .

Ethan wate is in love with a caster girl.
When he looks at Lena, it's...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers,...

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil...

Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets,...

Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from...

Is it ever too late to rewrite the past?
When Lina and Ash were at school, they buried a time capsule containing letters about...

Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk...

The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and...

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his...

Featuring poems scattered over nearly thirty years of writing and salvaged from the diaries 'authored' by one Sue Townsend, this...

Mercenary. Survivor. Queen.

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

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most...

Liverpool, 1944

Though they may be posted miles apart, Cadi and Jez's love for one another is stronger than ever - until Cadi...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...

Even the approach to Christmas fails to excite restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of the sweet and...

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

Once I had four brothers. Three of them are dead. I am next.
Felix Ashe is sure of only one thing. In thirty days, on his...

Gods have fallen. A queen is rising.
And the world will never be the same.
The throne of the Kethran Empire lies empty, its...

The sixth heartwarming, feel-good instalment in the much-loved Railway Girls series!

Manchester, 1942. There are surprises in...

Sometimes friendship crosses a line . . .



A group of close friends, their bonds forged at the nursery gates two decades...

Trust no one.

It is six months since the Arcadia set sail for the first time in forty years. But this wasn't the freedom the...