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What kind of person do you want to be? Kind, smart, thoughtful or wise, the possibilities are endless. Follow all of these amazing bees on their busy day, from their hive to school, on good days and bad days, and learn that being yourself is the best you that you can be. And if you believe in yourself, life can...

An early learning board book that takes a very first look at the magic of Christmas. Perfect for story time with little ones, this first board book introduces babies and toddlers to the festival of Christmas. From decorating Christmas trees and baking festive cookies to hanging up stockings and waiting for Santa, this is the perfect introduction to the magic...

A charming first book of prayers for baby. Makes a wonderful gift for a new baby. Mums and grandmums alike will love this padded, foil-stamped, and embossed edition of Baby's First Book of Prayers. Baby will love it too as soon as Mum starts reading it.

The bestselling scientific series is expanding! New scientific topics covered using whimsical artwork and humorous text, from leading medical expert Cara Florance! The worldwide bestselling Baby University book series that brought you ABCs of Science, Robotics for Babies, and Organic Chemistry for Babies is expanding! Empower children with this educational baby book so they can understand their bodies with courage...

Baby Loves Paleontology by Ruth Spiro and Irene Chan is part of the Baby Loves Science board book series, offering big, brainy science for the littlest listeners. Baby loves to dig! Maybe she'll discover something deep underground—like a fossil. Accurate enough to satisfy an expert, yet simple enough for a baby, this clever board book explores fossils, dinosaurs, and the...

The Baby Loves Science board book series is big, brainy science for the littlest listeners. The Baby Loves Science board book series is big, brainy science for the littlest listeners. It's time to get dressed! How does Baby know what to wear? She checks the weather—and learns about wind, the water cycle, precipitation, and prediction! Accurate enough to satisfy an...

Jean de Brunhoff’s tales of Babar have charmed readers around the world for 80 years. As one of the most iconic series of animal books in history, Babar has become a household name both as a character in children’s books and on TV. Beautifully illustrated, this edition is an ideal gift for children aged 3 and up. This slipcase includes...

Help children understand their autism and thrive with this positive guide for kids ages 8 to 12. We all think differently. This notion is celebrated in Autism and Me, a guide that helps children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) gain a better understanding of how their brain works. The book highlights positive ASD traits while showing kids how they can...

Aussie Kids is an exciting new series for emerging readers aged 6-8 years. From a NSW Zoo to a Victorian lighthouse, or an outback sheep farm in WA to a beach in QLD, this junior fiction series celebrates stories about children living in unique places in every state in Australia. Eight characters, eight stories, eight authors and illustrators from all...

Just add water to bring an array of well-known artworks magically to life. Fun, educational and easy, this latest addition to the best-selling series features 16 vibrant paintings by Edward Hopper, Mary Cassatt and more. Just brush water over the black-and-white outlines to make each picture burst magically into colour. Discover the magic of painting with Art Gallery Magic Painting...

Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing ...because a snake would lose it, a billy goat would eat it for lunch, and it would always be wet on a walrus! This well-loved book by Judi and Ron Barrett shows the very youngest why animals' clothing is perfect... just as it is.

From the creative minds of LEGO Masters winners Jackson Harvey and Alex Towler comes a LEGO book like no other. The year is 2130. Humanity's reign has ended but the world is recovering—in one brick at a time. LEGO minifigures have risen from the debris to craft intricate civilisations inside discarded objects—each one inspired by the relic they now call...

Celebrate the holidays with Amelia Bedelia! Amelia Bedelia, her friends, and her family enjoy some scary (and sweet) fun in this haunting Halloween edition. This chapter book is an excellent choice for children who are ready to read independently, and is terrific for building vocabulary and social and emotional learning. Includes a recipe, a special Amelia Bedelia mask, and a...

'I absolutely LOVED this book.' Marian Keyes Was she taken ... or did she run? The pulse-pounding new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of You Don't Know Me. Rose was torn away from her daughter. Now, is she the only one who can save her? Former London police officer Rose Campbell has been estranged from her daughter, Lou, for...

The bestselling author of The Arrangement returns with a deliciously twisted story of friendship, retribution, and betrayal about a homeless woman fleeing a dangerous past – and the wealthy society wife she saves from drowning, who pulls her into a dark web of secrets and lies. Lee Gulliver never thought she’d find herself living on the streets, but when her...

Fast-paced and hard-boiled, this Harlem Detectives novel follows a pile of stolen money—or it would if anyone could find it... Alberta Wright drops dead on the street during a sermon by the charismatic con man Sweet Prophet. Her partner rushes home to avoid the cops, only to find her apartment looted by someone looking for her stash of cash. But...

Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point was shortlisted for the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards, Best Debut Crime Fiction. Esther Paul is 12 years old. She is reported missing on Vanuatu local radio. Two days later her body is found floating in the sea. Senior Constable George Wong of the Vanuatu National Police Force drops his current case to investigate her...

The 60th Anniversary Edition of the First Wexford Case The 60th Anniversary Edition With a New Introduction by Kate Hamer If crime fiction is currently in rude good health . . . this is in no small part thanks to Ruth Rendell - IAN RANKIN A classic mystery, as true to life now as it was half a century ago...

An unsolved murder investigation in 1970s Ireland from “one of Canada’s finest novelists.” — Ottawa Review of Books Shay Rynne grew up in the Corporation Flats — public housing — in Fenian Street, Dublin. He has always toyed with the idea of joining the Garda Síochána, the Irish police. But in the early 1970s, young fellows from the tenements of...

From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter. Cambridge, UK, 1947. Martin Friedrich, a German philosopher, is cycling through an intersection on his way to give a lecture when a speeding car strikes and kills him. Shortly afterwards, Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, an Austrian-born cockney Jew...

Clues From Beyond explores the truth about some intense real-life Australian crimes, through the eyes of a psychic medium as she investigates criminal cases and unsolved murders. Debbie Malone is an acclaimed spirit medium who has assisted police departments across Australia in missing persons and murder investigations for over two decades. In this follow-up to her bestselling book Never Alone,...

'With a deft hand, Meredith Appleyard shows us the beating - and sometimes aching - heart of rural Australia. A poignant tale with characters that linger long after the last page.' Bestselling Australian Author Tricia Stringer She's gone ... will her family pull together, or fall further apart? 'Functionally dysfunctional.' That's how financial analyst Grace Fairley describes her family in...

From the author of The Lonely Londoners, a short story collection of life in mid-century Trinidad and London, told with Selvon's unique wit and poetic sensibility. With equal humour, sorrow and joy, the master storyteller brings together two worlds and turns his pen to life in Trinidad and London. Sharing tales of gossip and rivalry between village washerwomen, toiling canecutters...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish...

HIGHLY COMMENDED - The ACT Book of the Year 2024 HIGHLY COMMENDED - ACT Literary Awards 2024, Fiction. Winner of the 2022 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize. A finely observed debut novel of a young Muslim woman's experience of immigration to Australia from Sri Lankan-Australian writer Ayesha Inoon. Zia secretly longs to go to university but as a young woman in a...

In these three tales from the first major translation into English of The Arabian Nights in more than 100 years, the endless inventiveness of the vizier's daughter Shahrazad is revealed. She spins stories of greed, lust, riches, and wonder to delay her death at the hands of a brutal king.

The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic...

"So so so good. A bruising, brilliant and beautiful mystery. An elegant, twisting story of loss and longing, of the ache of the unknown and the drowning weight of past trauma. A very special debut" — Chris Whitaker, NYT bestselling author of We Begin at the End She could be anyone. She could be you. Nobody ever found out what...

Another outstandingly wry and funny novel from the inimitable Rosemary Tonks, author of The Bloater. Gut-wrenching, ingenious, absolutely hilarious, this is the rediscovered story of a woman's desperate quest for freedom. 'I'm thirty, and I'm stuck' Arabella is on an increasingly desperate quest for freedom from her overbearing father and her conspicuously absent brother. But her desire for self-actualisation only...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2025 ‘Compelling and fine and rich, I devoured it' - TESSA HADLEY 'Powerfully compelling' - GUARDIAN ‘Unbelievably good' - ELIZABETH DAY 'Complex and nuanced… the perfect definition of summer reading' - LUCY CALDWELL 'Subtle, complex, ambitious' - THE TIMES A Guardian Book of the Year 2024 A stunning new novel of power, desire and...

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This leather-bound edition features Ernest Hemingway’s works from the early 1920s, including one of his most famous novels, The Sun Also Rises, as well as short stories and poems. Ernest Hemingway’s first novel, The Sun Also Rises, is also his most widely acclaimed. Set against the backdrop of Paris café society and the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain,...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Marti's fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy - and revenge. Cushioning her fall from grace, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of...

An extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination. Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum. Countless women, responding to a newspaper ad, visit him there in the hope of finding their spouse who vanished in battle. One...

A cartoonist talks to God. In 1989, cartoonist Michael Leunig began an experiment. Asked to produce a weekly cartoon for Sunday Age, Australia, he remembers wondering if newspapers might carry some small spiritual message of consolation as a tiny reparation for the enormous anxiety and distress they can create. Since then, the two collections, A Common Prayer and The Prayer...

A richly varied anthology of Spanish short stories, curated by celebrated translator Margaret Jull Costa. This exciting new collection celebrates the Spanish short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable work being written today. Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends hidden gems and old favourites, surprising new voices...

A major celebration of the French short story across the twentieth century. The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2 takes the reader through the tumultuous twentieth century in the company of writers including Simone de Beauvoir and Maryse Condé, Patrick Modiano and Virginie Despentes, covering world wars, revolutions, and the horrors of the motorway service station. Along the way,...

A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries. The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. The first volume spans 400 years, taking the reader from the sixteenth century to the 'golden age' of the fin...

Weekly, nicknamed The Newspaper, cleans the houses on Claremont Street, spreading the neighbourhood gossip as she works. No one knows or cares where Weekly goes in her spare time, or what she dreams of at night—no one, that is, until Nastasya discovers her secret. The Newspaper of Claremont Street reveals the intricate details of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, offering...

A richly varied anthology showcases a teeming, strange, magical world, about to be brought to an end by the catastrophe of 1914. The quarter century or so before the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain. Fuelled by a large new magazine readership and vigorous competition to...

The first novel from one of Italy's most innovative writers of the 20th century. 'The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict.' – Italo Calvino At the height of Fascist rule in Italy, and following the death of his mother, Carlo Emilio Gadda began work on his...

A beguiling blend of Dark Ages history, strong heroines, and magic . . . Captivating - DAILY MAIL Lucy Holland, the bestselling author of Sistersong, transforms the story of Herla and the Wild Hunt into a rich, feminist fantasy in this stunning tale of two great warriors, a war-torn land, and an ancient magic that is slowly awakening. Britain, 60...

Some feelings are so big that one word just doesn't cut it. It's the first day of school for Afua! There's no one word to name her feelings. Is she scared? Excited? Oh wait, she's scarecited! Her own combination of both. Why should she have to choose? Flute is fly + cute. Shurious is shy + curious. And of course,...

Why do we have to work for 40 years and only retire once? Why can't we take occasional career breaks to focus on the other areas of life that matter: family, friends, adventure, rest, hobbies, our health, and achieving long-held dreams? And what if there was a way of doing so that not only avoided financial or career downsides -...

Jade Dunn has spent years trying to climb her way to the top of the southern high school football food chain. Now, the only thing standing between her and that future head coach spot is years of small-town good 'ol boy politics. When she scores an invite to a highly coveted monthly poker game perfect for networking, she jumps at...

Charming and full of heart, Not Another Love Song is perfect for readers looking for: Contemporary YA romance Enemies-to-lovers Dating You Would Ruin Everything (But They Do It Anyway) Music-filled stories about aspiring singer-songwriters (total Swiftie vibes!) Lynn Painter Fans K. L. Walther fans Angie Conrad has always known she wanted to be a musician. Growing up in Nashville, it's...

'Funny, deep, shocking, wry, heartwarming and spine-chilling' - The Guardian Mr Fox, by award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, is a beautiful and immersive exploration of the labyrinthine world of imagination, storytelling, and love. It's a bright afternoon in 1938, and Mary Foxe is in a confrontational mood. St John Fox, celebrated novelist, hasn't seen her in six years. He's unprepared for...

'A match made in picture-book heaven' - The Times This brilliantly funny collaboration between two superstar creators about a tiny girl with superhuman strength has all the hallmarks of a future classic. Liliana wears her super power lightly, using it to help others in a crisis. A resilient child, she thinks nothing of single-handedly rescuing a highland cow stuck in...

Reimagine the traditional idea of retirement and discover how to create a working life you love. We've been told that traditional retirement is the ultimate goal, that life will be better in the future than it is now. We've bought into this idea so thoroughly that we continue doing work we don't enjoy right now for the promise of better...

It's 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon—handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction—takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it's the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city's punishing rhythm, he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites' dogs. But it isn't until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of...

"A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul's stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts" - The Times In 1964, V. S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to...

Novels, Tales, Journeys by Alexander Pushkin features the renowned author's masterpieces in prose, translated by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin, is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic narratives of love, obsession, and betrayal to lively comic tales, and from satirical epistolary tales to imaginative...

How to become a legendary international spy: Never blow your cover. Trust no one. Don't fall for anyone at the agency. Especially if she's your ex-girlfriend. Second generation superstar spy Yardley Whitmer is known as "the Unicorn." Able to disarm anyone in the field—with either her charm, or her skills—Yardley is a premier operative capable of handling the most exclusive...

If I Could . . . I'd give you the moon to tuck into your pocket. I'd fold my love between the pages of this book, so every time you open it, you feel how I do every time I think of you. This poignant picture book, with a warm message and lush illustrations, is an ode to all the...

Fortune always left whatever room I walked into, which is why I don't leave my place much these days... Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn't need much—least of all trouble—but trouble always seems to find him. Work has dried up, and he'd rather be left alone to deal with his bills as the Harmattan rolls in to coat the city...

The battle for the magical world is only just beginning... With the support of the Iffenwilders and their mighty water magic, Daisy and her friends are finally setting off to rescue the Botanists held prisoner in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. But their rescue mission is sent spinning off course when Daisy and Max are separated, and Max is...

A breakneck comic tour-de-force set in 1980s Hollywood, about one man's quest to get his hands on a box of bawdy love letters. Elliot Weiner is a historian with a passion for Morris dancing and Warren Harding, 'the shallowest President in history'. After Weiner receives a research grant to write a book on Harding's tumultuous life, he gets wind of...

Shortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize A masterpiece ... demands to be read - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain An extraordinary novel - Michael Magee, author of Close to Home It's the west of Scotland in the 1950s. New houses are going up. Factories are opening. But Dunky Logan, a 15-year-old brought up in a tenement flat in...

An ambitious history of masculinity and family, from the Bronze Age to the modern day, Fatherhood dares to offer a more caring and affirmative vision of the roles men currently play in society. What is fatherhood, and where did it come from? How has the role of men in families and society changed across thousands of years? What does the...

Nobody realises how hard it is to compete to be the shooting star that someone wishes on. And they definitely don't know that burn out impacts celestial bodies too. When the lights go out for one star, their self-worth is thrown into flux as they plummet to the ground. But after they hit their lowest—the Earth—they find a new purpose...

It'll surely be a no-hassle, stress-free, easy-peasy kind of day. Best friends Jeff and Anders start the day with the best of intentions, but before long, everything goes haywire. From power outages, to spilled breakfasts, to missing socks, a series of irritating incidents sends the bear-and-bunny duo on an epic journey that will test their fortitude and their friendship. Can...

For a former English maid, the stakes have never been higher... Damned is the final book in the Scarlet Revolution series, a spellbinding adventure of magic, vampires, and mayhem from the bestselling author of the Invisible Library series. 1794. Eleanor, a former English maid, is a member of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - and now a promising mage....

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics — irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas, and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Often described as the father of the modern short story, there is perhaps no other writer more closely associated with the form than Guy de Maupassant. Included here is his most famous story, Boule de...

A new Vintage Classics edition of Martin Amis's Money - 40 years since its first publication With a new introduction from Andrew O'Hagan John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling between London and New York, he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites—alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of...

The instant No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, updated with exclusive new material. 'Scoops aplenty are here . . . An irresistible insider account of momentous royal events' - Melanie Reid, The Times 'Fascinating . . . the book everyone is talking about' - Daily Mail By the acclaimed royal biographer and commentator Robert Hardman, Charles III is an intimate portrait...

In the late 1980s, Poland is facing debilitating food shortages, worker discontent, and astronomical inflation. Seemingly overnight, the country transitions from communism to capitalism. During this period of flux, Kasia Babis is born. In the shadow of national change, Kasia experiences her own journey of growth, from rebellious teen to politically minded activist. She grapples with her country's deep-rooted Catholicism...

Return to the cosy and heart-warming world of The Spellshop in The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst, a world brimming with singing flowers, honey cakes and honeyed love. Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue and tucked...

I absolutely loved it. Anyone interested in the relationship between tech, our bodies, and our minds should bump it to the top of their queue immediately. - Zadie Smith, author of The Fraud This bold and highly impressive debut novel has its thumb right over the sore spots of modern life. - Guardian Mary is single, jobless, and on her...

Iggy Guerra returns home from prison to find his beloved mother dead and buried, his father Armando a beer-soaked mess, and the Miami butcher shop that has been in their family for generations about to be gentrified into bankruptcy. When Iggy's mistakes plunged his family into debt, his heartbroken and furious father got in too deep with a group of...

Celebrate the 160th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland! Lewis Carroll's timeless heroine, Alice, has been enchanting children for 160 years. Curious Alice, the bossy White Rabbit, the formidable Queen of Hearts, the grinning Cheshire Cat, and the Mad Hatter are among the best-loved, most iconic literary creations of all time. This beautiful edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has...

'This is a moving memoir about how recipes are formed by migration, love and loss, even within a single family' - Bee Wilson, author of The Secret of Cooking 'A fascinating book. "Food of the road": through memory, history, recipes - and love - a family, and an era's, complex story is movingly traced' - Judith Flanders, author of Rites...

Vintage Classics presents Martin Amis' London Trilogy: Money, London Fields, and The Information. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL CUSK Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson's dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through the doors of the Black...

A story of the Jews in Eastern Europe in the 19th century through the eyes of a gentile peasant girl, from one of the greatest writers of Holocaust fiction. The teenage Katerina flees her abusive home in a poor, Christian village in the 1880s, finding work and shelter in the home of a Jewish family. In the warmth of their...

The bestselling classic about three generations of a deaf family in modern America, by the author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Two young deaf people, Abel and Janice, leave their punitive school and begin their life as a married couple 'Outside' — in the unwelcoming world of the hearing. A misunderstanding about the payment plan on a...

Reissued in a new series style, Human Traces is the moving and powerful prequel to Snow Country. The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Shocking and enlightening... touching and affecting' - Daily Mail 'A masterpiece . . . one of the great novels of this or any other century' - Independent As young boys, both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with...

"I want you to believe... to believe in things you cannot." Bram Stoker's Dracula, one of literature's most frightening vampire horror novels, is now available in an exquisite hardcover edition. Featuring a striking foil-accented cover and distinctive interior design elements, it is ideal for fiction lovers, horror fans, and book collectors. This collectible volume is the ideal addition to any...

The definitive translation of the world's greatest novel Indisputably the definitive translation — Observer If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote — Ben Okri Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the...

Discover the world of classic literature! Discover new realms of thought and fantasy in this exclusively selected boxed set! Four special-edition Word Cloud Classics are included: The Wizard of Oz, The Wind in the Willows and Other Stories, Hans Christian Andersen Tales, and Aesop’s Fables. Readers will be proud to display these works on their bookshelf when not reading folk...

A deliciously deranged thriller about supernatural vengeance and postwar guilt, by one of Austria's most celebrated writers. Alexander Jessiersky, Austrian aristocrat and shipping magnate, finds the Nazis distasteful. However, in war and in business, distaste can lead to negligence. When Jessiersky's board of directors sends his mysterious neighbour, Count Luna, to a concentration camp on trumped-up charges in order to...

Comic Sagas and Tales brings together the finest comic stories from medieval Iceland. With feuding families and moments of grotesque violence, the sagas see such classic mythological figures as murdered fathers, disguised beggars, corrupt chieftains, and avenging sons do battle with axes, words, and cunning. Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most important in the medieval world....