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'A bold, unflinching debut' GUARDIAN 'Brutal, tender, philosophical, visceral, complex and so well written' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH Maintaining one person's dignity comes nearly always at the expense of someone else's. I have learned this for you. Janet is caught between care work and caring for he...
April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became two of the very first Jews to successfully escape Auschwitz. Evading the thousands of SS men hunting them, Vrba and Wetzler made the perilous journey on foot across Nazi-occupied Poland. Their mission: to reveal to t...
At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communities The word "peacebuilding" evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are s...
In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton gives us a witty and piercingly insightful dark satire about the privileged society of early twentieth-century New York. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon marke...
The follow-up to the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller The Mister, a passionate and thrilling love story from E L James, author of the phenomenal bestselling Fifty Shades Trilogies. Alessia regards her husband through heavy-lidded eyes. You'll have to fight for him. Her mother's words from their cal...
Throw the spookiest soiree of the season with this delightful cookbook and entertaining guide inspired by Tim Burton’s iconic film The Nightmare Before Christmas. Is it Halloween? Christmas? Your birthday? No matter the occasion, this book will help you take your next dinner or event from routin...
With an Introduction by Emma Hartnoll. Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were published prior to her death. She had an immen...
A NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From the dawn of life itself, every being that has ever lived owes its existence to the cell. 'Will leave you in awe' Guardian The discovery of this vital form led to a transformation in medicine but als...
New to Penguin Classics, the great underwater adventure story in a stunning clothbound edition with original images. In this thrilling adventure tale by the 'Father of Science Fiction', three men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine the Na...
In the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), the dramatic story of Michael Henchard is described. The life path of Henchard—The Man of Character—was determined by fate at the moment of anger and a cruel joke in his youth. Despite the achievements of all subsequent years of ...
«Northanger Abbey» is a novel by the English writer Jane Austen (1775–1817), written in the Gothic style fashionable at the time with irony characteristic of the author. Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is fascinated by the romance of «gothic novels» and often imagines herself as the heroine ...
Little Men novel, like most of the works by the American writer Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), is somewhat autobiographical. In the private school for boys, which was opened by the spouses Jo and Fritz Bhaer, rather free rules of behavior prevail. But its pupils—different in character and outlook...
Hearts of Three novel is a gem of the creative work of the American classic writer Jack London (1876–1916). The young descendant of the pirate Morgan, who left him a rich inheritance, goes in search of his ancestor’s treasures. On the way, he meets his distant relative Henry and the char...
A brutal war and military invasion totally broke down the former peaceful and comfortable life of Energodar, a satellite town of the Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. The war made numerous destinies of its inhabitants tie up into a tight knot, with each of them having their own difficult stor...
«Emma» is the fourth novel penned by the esteemed English writer Jane Austen (1775–1817). The central character, Emma Woodhouse, is a youthful, affluent, and vivacious young woman. Having lost her mother many years ago andwith her elder sister now married, Emma assumes the role of the sole mistre...
The third volume of Scotland Yard Book by the English writer Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) presents the collection of short stories The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reader, published in 1925. The collection includes the works The Poetical Policeman, The Green Mamba, The Stealer of Marble, The Troupe, Sheer Melo...
The first volume of Scotland Yard Book by the English writer Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) included the thriller novel The Clue of the Silver Key. In the story, Surefoot Smith of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate when petty thief Tom Tickler is murdered and left in a cab with ?100 in his poc...
The second volume of Scotland Yard Book by the English writer Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) offers the thriller novel Black, which was first published in 1926, and two short stories. Black is a mysterious story about a Londoner named James Morelake, who has many secrets and an interesting set of skil...
The Folio Book of Vintage Christmas Stories contains works by American writers Mark Twain (1835—1910) and L. Frank Baum (1856—1919). Mark Twain’s stories are imbued with philosophical fiction, light and good humor. In particular, you will read his letter, written on behalf of Santa Claus, and L. ...
The Folio Book of Sentimental Christmas Stories contains works by the American writers Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811—1896), Louisa May Alcott (1832—1888) and the Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874—1942). These good stories, combined with a common Christmas theme, are relevant today, they wa...
