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The tragic and terrible drama of the war between Greeks and Trojans, the long siege of Troy, and the impact of one woman's beauty on the fate of two nations is played out again in this dazzling novel based on Homer's Iliad. Meet enchanting Helen, who we first encounter as a spoiled teenager and whose passion for the handsome, reckless...

Native Birds of Aotearoa is an accessible, handsomely illustrated guide to Aotearoa New Zealand's native bird species. Published in collaboration with Birds New Zealand, it describes sixty of our most interesting species. Charming original illustrations from the 1930s have been complemented with new artwork by illustrator Pippa Keel.

Part of the Te Papa Te Taiao Nature Series, this accessible introduction to a range of the aquatic and terrestrial shell-bearing molluscs encountered in New Zealand is written by two experts from our national museum, Te Papa. It features over 160 species, from chitons and mussels to snails and limpets, and also offers insights into the museum's fieldwork and collections....

The Montgomery brothers have been the talk of Boonsboro, ever since they decided to renovate the old Inn into an intimate and handsome new Bed and Breakfast. Beckett and Owen have both found love in the process, but what of Ryder, the third Montgomery brother? Can the Inn BoonsBoro weave its magic one more time? Ryder is the hardest Montgomery...

When the actions of a rebel gladiator in Egypt threaten the stability of the Roman Empire, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro know he must be stopped. The locals are holding the Romans responsible for the attacks Ajax and his crew have been making along the coast, and now Egypt is dangerously volatile. Tasked with tracking and defeating the renegade, Cato...

The historic hotel in BoonsBoro has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumoured hauntings. Now it's getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother, and they are uncovering secrets from the hotel's past. The new manager of the inn starts work, and sparks fly with one of the brothers. The Last Boyfriend is a compelling...

The Fields of Death is the epic final novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon Quartet. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell. 1809. Viscount Wellington and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte have made their mark as military commanders. Lifelong enemies, they both believe their armies are strong enough to destroy any rival. But in war, victory can never be certain....

"How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories." Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Tolstoy wrote in many genres for different audiences. In this, the first of three volumes of his shorter fiction...

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. The Cossacks follows Dmitry Andreich Olenin, who, in the hope of escaping the hollowness of his privilege, joins the army and heads to the Caucasus. There among the foothills, he will meet the Cossacks—a people he considers...

The sensuous blockbuster novel by the beloved, bestselling author of The Pearl Thief. MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Impossible to put down' – BETTER READING 'A sweeping wartime romantic thriller' – HERALD SUN Alexandra Frobisher dreams of a career in England's famous chocolate-making town of York. She has received several proposals of marriage, although none of them promises that elusive extra...

Sometimes you can't resist the forces of nature A classic romance novel from Nora Roberts - the world's greatest storyteller Olympic gymnast Samantha Evans and her twin sister Sabrina have chosen very different directions in life, but they are still as close as sisters can be. So when Sabrina begs her twin to help out during her pregnancy, Sam leaves...

Six newly translated stories from the bestselling Austrian author. 'One of the masters of the short story' Guardian These six stories of obsession, secrets, delusions and desires from one of the greatest European writers show individuals caught up in forces beyond their control — whether an art dealer agreeing to a heartbreaking deception, a soldier destroyed by war, a servant...

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. Today, George Orwell is perhaps most famous for his iconic novels — Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm — but in his own time, it was his remarkable nonfiction writing which drew most attention. Kind-hearted, intelligent,...

In the enchanted woods of County Mayo, a young woman must fight the one thing she fears the most—her own heart. Meara Quinn is in trouble. Fiercely independent and scarred by a tough childhood, she is convinced that love is for other people. She is certainly not going to fall for Connor O'Dwyer—her best friend's brother. He may be drop-dead...

The thrilling Roman adventure from the author of The Legion and The Gladiator. The city of Rome in AD 50 is a dangerous place. Treachery lurks on every corner, and a shadowy Republican movement, 'the Liberators', has spread its tentacles wide. It is feared that the heart of the latest plot lies in the ranks of the Praetorian Guard. Uncertain...

All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume. Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this comprehensive collection, is concerned with England, a country that he found both endearing and frustrating. In the brilliantly perceptive The English People, he lists the national characteristics as 'suspicion of foreigners, sentimentality about animals, hypocrisy, exaggerated...

An expansive collection of George Orwell's writing on the down and out. The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in this powerful volume chronicle Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor. Down and Out in Paris and London is the young Orwell's memoir of his time as a struggling, often penniless writer,...

George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future, annotated for students and with a new introduction by D. J. Taylor. Ever since its publication in 1948, George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like 'a boot stamping on a human face' has become a touchstone for human freedom, and one of the most...

The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades, experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism, and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, The Two Hussars contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoy's belief that art must serve a moral purpose, What Men...

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell explores the struggle against dull, middle-class respectability and the worship of money through the character of Gordon Comstock. Gordon Comstock loathes these societal norms and gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, hoping it will give him more time to write. However, he instead slides into self-induced...

The collected poems of Lewis Carroll, newly edited by Gillian Beer and published in a beautiful clothbound edition. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, Jabberwocky. This new edition collects together the marvellous range of Carroll's poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques,...

How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy is a collection of short works that range from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story. Rich in insights and passion, these stories embody the themes that define all of Tolstoy's explorations: love, war, courage, and civilization.

Hidden in Plain Sight is the second brilliant and captivating novel featuring William Warwick by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer. Do you want the good news or the bad? William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion has meant reassignment, along with the rest of his team, to the Drugs...

Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful kind of life. Her job as a sheriff's deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them. She's perfectly content, except for one thing: she has special powers that both frighten and confuse her, and though she tries hard to hide them, she...

A superb new translation by Judson Rosengrant of Tolstoy's semi-autobiographical trilogy. Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed. Readers find the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner...

Broken is the fourth novel in the gripping Will Trent series, from the No. 1 bestselling crime and thriller author. ‘One of the boldest thriller writers working today!’ – Tess Gerritsen ‘Amongst the world's greatest and finest crime writers’ – Yrsa Sigurðardóttir Now a major TV Series on Disney+ When the body of a young woman is discovered at the...

The new paperback series - Penguin English Library "Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). "Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye, feet!" 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ... without the least idea what was to happen...

Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories features all of the best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also features Carroll's novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, his masterpiece of nonsense verse...

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. By the time he was fifty, Tolstoy had already written the novels that would assure him of literary immortality; he had a wife, a large estate and numerous children; he was a happy man and in good health—yet life...

FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER WHOSE BOOKS HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 40 MILLION READERS 'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecilia Ahern Banished for centuries, as punishment for trying to measure time, the inventor of the world's first clock is finally granted his freedom, along with a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two people...

The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice… When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again – for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are...

The Fiery Cross is the fifth novel in the bestselling Outlander series, now a major TV series. In 1771, the Colony of North Carolina stands in an uneasy balance, with the rich, colonial aristocracy on one side and the struggling pioneers of the backcountry on the other. Between them stands Jamie Fraser, a man of honour, a man of worth....

A stunning new Clothbound Classics edition of Jane Austen's tantalising final work—set to be a major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation this autumn. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Written in the last months of...

He raised the chalice, they prayed and they sang. He was dead the moment he drank the blood. A crowd gathers for a funeral at a downtown New York church. As Father Flores smiles down on his congregation and drinks from the chalice of Christ's blood, he falls down dead. But who would murder a priest? Lieutenant Eve Dallas is...

One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time,...

Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that is what everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They have no idea that she used to be Elaine O'Hara, daughter of the notorious con man Big Jack O'Hara. Or...

A Booktok favourite for its aesthetic on bookshelves, experience Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in this exclusive collector's edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping and a ribbon marker. This beautiful book is an ideal gift for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. In Jane Austen's most popular novel, Elizabeth Bennet and eligible bachelor...

A sparkling literary satire and an Austen favourite, in a beautiful new clothbound edition. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of...

A message from a dead acquaintance prompts a bus tour to an unknown crime… In utter disbelief, Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel—an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. Recognising in Miss Marple a natural flair for justice, Mr Rafiel had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after...

You might not have heard of misophonia, but if you are often infuriated by the sound of chewing, breathing, snoring, a clock ticking, or any other specific trigger, you may have experienced it. In fact, it’s thought that one in five of us have it. Sounds Like Misophonia addresses what the condition is, how it manifests, and provides a guide...

An all-new collection of summer-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the holiday season. Summertime – as the temperature rises, so does the potential for evil. From Cornwall to the French Riviera, whether against a background of Delphic temples or English country houses, Agatha Christie’s most famous characters solve even the most devilish of conundrums...

Love and Freindship by Jane Austen offers readers a glimpse into the author’s brilliant, hilarious, and often outrageous early stories, sketches, and pieces of nonsense, newly compiled for Penguin Classics. Jane Austen's earliest writings date back to when she was just eleven years old, already showcasing the hallmarks of her mature work. However, these works are also products of the...

The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice – now a major motion picture. When a Hallowe’en party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer… At a Hallowe’en party, Joyce – a hostile thirteen-year-old – boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found,...

"If you're a crime fiction fan and haven't discovered them yet, welcome to the very best day of your life" - Heat Magazine Out now in paperback - the latest instalment in the Sunday Times bestselling series It's a beautiful Spring day in NYC when Lt. Eve Dallas gets an early morning murder call. A talented young sculptor hasn't had...

Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender's Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune, one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. Melange, or 'spice', is the most valuable - and rarest - element in the universe. And it can only be found on a single planet: the inhospitable desert world Arrakis. Whoever controls Arrakis controls the spice. And...

'We've got a corpse that looks like one of the investigators, a houseful of Hollywood and a media machine that's going to eat it like gooey chocolate.' Lieutenant Eve Dallas is panicking - and she's not at a crime scene. Forced to attend a celeb-packed party for a new movie based on her most famous case, she is surrounded by...

Schooldays can be tough. Who will learn the fatal lesson? Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light while the rest of the school sleeps. In the sports pavilion, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress—shot through the heart from point-blank range. The school is thrown into chaos when the ‘cat’...

On the steps outside an empty office in New York's financial district, a woman lies dead. It's a bitterly cold winter, and her coat and other items are missing, which initially seems to point to a mugging gone wrong. However, Lt Eve Dallas soon discovers that the body was dumped at the newly-renovated property. Now she has to find out...

A testament of love . . . so real it could make you weep - NEW YORK TIMES Masterful . . . has much to say to our times - Guardian Begs to be read - Spectator A luminous, thought-provoking novel - Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover...

The Sunday Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 From the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Extraordinary – The New York Times Remarkable – Observer Heartfelt – The Guardian Bewilderment tells the story of Theo Byrne, a promising young scientist who has discovered a way to search for life on planets dozens of light years away. However, his greatest challenge is...

Following the interwoven lives of four characters across India, Australia, and the United States, the novel takes root in Melbourne and brings its streets, shopping centres, and laneways to life with astounding originality—the city may never be the same again. The Degenerates radiates with Titch’s fanaticism and Ginny’s obsessions. Somnath’s devastating history reflects every life divided around the globe. Maha,...

Amy, Jin, and Lucie are leading isolated lives in their partially renovated, inner-city home. They are not happy, but they are also terrified of change. When they buy a pet rabbit for Lucie, and then Amy's mother, Pauline, comes to stay, the family is forced to confront long-buried secrets. Will opening their hearts to the rabbit help them to heal...

Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts and, in repressing it, ended up burning the very huts they intended to tax. Sometimes they succeed astonishingly, as when, in eighteenth-century Britain, a...

Reduce your risk and maximise your reward. Options trading can be risky and intimidating, even for experienced traders. It can also be an exciting investment option that can pay serious dividends. This helpful guide breaks down the often complicated process of options trading and explains, step-by-step, how to buy and sell according to your investment strategy, weigh option costs and...

Learn how to count with The Cat in the Hat in this fun-filled learning activity book, complete with stickers! Come and join the Cat in the Hat and have lots of fun with counting! With numbers to draw and easy-to-follow counting – and loads of stickers – you’ll soon be on your way to counting to 10, and beyond! The...

I Can Read with my Eyes Shut, by Dr. Seuss, reminds us, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” In this delightful book, Dr. Seuss celebrates the joys of reading, encouraging young children to take pride in their budding reading abilities. This celebration of the joys...

The wonderful Seuss classic now in a beautiful picture book format. Horton Hears a Who follows Horton the elephant as he sets out to save the inhabitants of a speck of dust in this classic and hilarious tale about friendship and respect, from the inimitable Dr. Seuss. Horton the kindly elephant has his work cut out saving the tiny Whos...

Discover all of the wonderful things that children get up to on their birthdays in the imaginary land of Katroo in this magical Dr. Seuss classic! Introducing a host of zany creatures and wacky situations, this charming tale looks at all the wonderful things that children get up to on their birthdays in the imaginary land of Katroo. First published...

The Dr. Seuss classic about the irrepressible Fox in Socks gets a brand new look – bringing his hilarious tongue-twisters and rollicking rhymes to a new generation of readers. The classic story from the one and only Dr. Seuss, now with a brand new look! Fox in Socks teaches a baffled Mr. Knox some of the slickest, quickest tongue-twisters in...

Don't miss Past Lying, the twisty new Karen Pirie thriller. 'It grabs the reader by the throat and never lets go' Daily Mail 'Incredibly suspenseful' Sunday Mirror __________ 'There are lots of things that ran in families, but murder wasn't one of them . . .' When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma,...

The Masterful New Thriller in the Karen Pirie Series, Now a Major TV Series The truth is buried just beneath the surface . . . When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before. Journalist Sam Nimmo had been the prime suspect in...

Part-time student, full-time Soul Reaper, Ichigo is one of the chosen few guardians of the afterlife. Ichigo Kurosaki never asked for the ability to see ghosts—he was born with the gift. When his family is attacked by a Hollow—a malevolent lost soul—Ichigo becomes a Soul Reaper, dedicating his life to protecting the innocent and helping the tortured spirits themselves find...

What does a pathetic class of misfits have in their arsenal to combat their schoolteacher’s alien technology, bizarre powers and...tentacles?! Ever caught yourself screaming, “I could just kill that teacher”? What would it take to justify such antisocial behaviour and weeks of detention? Especially if he’s the best teacher you’ve ever had? Giving you an “F” on a quiz? Mispronouncing...

What does a pathetic class of misfits have in their arsenal to combat their schoolteacher’s alien technology, bizarre powers and...tentacles?! Ever caught yourself screaming, “I could just kill that teacher”? What would it take to justify such antisocial behaviour and weeks of detention? Especially if he’s the best teacher you’ve ever had? Giving you an “F” on a quiz? Mispronouncing...

The Science Book is an ultimate guide, featuring hundreds of incredible facts, stunning photographs, artworks, and a fantastic design. Kids aged 9 and above will be enthralled and excited from start to finish.

Don't miss the newest book from The Repair Shop, coming September 2025. The Repair Shop - the Bafta-award-winning series with regular viewing figures of 7 million in the UK alone - has cemented itself as a BBC classic. Enter a workshop filled with expert craftspeople as they bring loved pieces of family history and the memories they hold back to...

Little Bramble is the perfect country village. Brimming with community spirit and warmth. I loved it. - Phillipa Ashley, author of A Perfect Cornish Escape A feel-good, uplifting summer read for fans of Heidi Swain and Cathy Bramley. Emma Patrick's life is spiralling out of control. On the cusp of her 50th birthday, she realises that she's been so focused...

This book inflicts more shocks than an electric fence. Daily Mail Charley has a strange feeling when she sees the idyllic mill house with its cluster of outbuildings, the lake, and the swirling mill stream; a powerful sense of recognition, as if she has been there before. Except she knows she hasn't. After Charley and her husband Tom move into...

In Extraordinary Interiors In Colour, self-confessed colour addicts Jane Rockett and Lucy St George follow on from their best-selling first book by tackling the topic of choosing colour for the home. Such is their passion for colour that Jane and Lucy launched the Rockett St George paint range in August 2018. These sophisticated, earthy shades work perfectly together. This new...

A terrifying novel of a young man who is willing to defy everything. Even death... Fabian Hightower has been killed in a car crash. At least, that is what a policeman is asking Alex, his mother, to believe. But Alex knows she saw him that morning—at a time when he must have been dead. When the funeral is over, Alex...

Don’t miss the next emotionally gripping thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis! THE STORY… The first chapter of a manuscript arrives on Publisher Marina’s desk. She assumes it’s just another novel by another aspiring writer… THE SECRET… As the chapters arrive one by one, Marina is convinced they are about her past. There’s only one person who can know...

This sensitive, empathetic activity book is perfectly designed to help children discuss and process their feelings. Developed in consultation with professional child psychologist Dr. Katie O'Connell, this selection of 30+ drawing, colouring, and puzzle-solving activities offers a chance for all children to explore and express emotions in a safe way. Accompanied by wonderful full-colour illustrations, these activities include: Drawing around...

Brothers at war. Mankind deceived. Hell on Earth. A man face down in the dirt amid melting Arctic snow, a deep sense of unease but no memory of how he got there – Jason De Vere, once the head of a global media empire. Found and briefly taken to a safe house, Jason's soon on the run again – there's...

An ancient cargo long thought lost is found. With terrible consequences . . . Dirk Pitt is surveying in the Middle East when a stroke of luck reveals an Ottoman wreck with a very curious cargo. While investigating the find, he foils a night raid on Istanbul's Topkapi Palace Museum. This puts Pitt at the centre of a race to...

Bright, colourful illustrations are packed with charm and detail to capture the imaginations of young children. Poems include classics from Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Louisa M Alcott, and Edward Lear. This beautiful gift book, with stunning cover effects, contains 100 poems accompanied by bright illustrations, making it a perfect introduction to poetry for young children. 100 First Poems...

The Little Prince is a moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, and it holds the distinction of being the most translated book in the French language. With its timeless charm, the story follows a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to explore the universe. As he travels, he learns about the peculiarities of adult behaviour through...

High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphaned granddaughter has fallen in love with her handsome tutor, and the cook's heart is with his son, working far away in a New York restaurant. Meanwhile,...

All 36 Little Miss stories in one fantastic collection! This delightful set features the complete collection of 36 timeless Little Miss stories, including the much-loved classic titles, Little Miss Naughty, Little Miss Sunshine and Little Miss Inventor. The lasting appeal of these classic books will ensure this collection takes pride of place on any child's bookshelf. Perfect for toddlers and...

A beautiful new edition of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, the iconic, beloved and deeply moving first volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography. The international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' - BARACK OBAMA. "I write about being a Black American woman, however, I...

Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking. When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been travelling, he reasoned, then they must, at some point, have been on top of one another. This discovery transformed...