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From Bernard Cornwell, the creator of the No. 1 bestselling Sharpe novels. Arthur has brought a fragile peace to Britain – but it cannot last . . . Uniting the restive British kingdoms behind him,…

‘We don’t live alone … We are responsible for each other’ A policeman interrupts a rich family’s dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. As their guilty secrets are gradually…

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018 An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and…

Alec Leamas, a tired, worn out British spymaster, has retired. His boss, however, believes he has one last job in him and sends him to East Germany to spread false information about a powerful East…

Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism. He prophesied that those third world…

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea May, 1810 – and thirty-nine-year-old Captain Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line . . . Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is ‘the ugliest…

Combining frontline investigation with startling new data, Tristram Stuart’s Waste shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis – and what we can do to fix it. With shortages, volatile…

From the best-selling author of The Circle – the gripping true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself…

THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility Why should…

Roger Deakin’s Wildwood is a much loved classic of nature writing Wildwood is about the element wood, as it exists in nature, in our souls, in our culture and our lives. From the walnut tree…

‘This is a book of miracles. Fascinating… An absorbing compendium of unlikely recoveries from physical and mental ailments offers evidence that the brain can heal… brings Oliver Sacks to mind’ Lisa Appignanesi, Observer The Brain’s…

The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells ‘Death!’ I shouted. ‘Death is coming! Death!’ In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange…

„Take a break and read Rest: you’ll make smarter decisions, have better relationships, and be happier and more creative” James Wallman, author of Stuffocation „Many of us are interested in how to work better, but…

Quiet by Susan Cain will change how you think about introverts forever A Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller Our lives are driven by a fact that most of us can’t name and don’t…

A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true ‘churches’, Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential…

There are lots of cars. Some are big, some are small, some are old, some are fast! Which cars do you like? Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern…

In sixty-four bite-sized pieces of advice, Michael Pollan’s Food Rules tells you everything you need to know to eat healthily, dine happily and live well. Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven…