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Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt the Christmases of Muriel Spark and Elizabeth Bowen, while Dostoyevsky, Daphne du Maurier and Italo Calvino take a cynical…
THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN
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’An absolute delight from start to finish’ Shari Lapena
’A rattling good story’ Ann Cleeves ’Another witty, charming and hugely entertaining read ……
This is the ”Penguin English Library Edition” of ”The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases” by Arthur Conan Doyle. ’He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson…He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of…
From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change
One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The never-before-told inside story of the Steele Dossier and the Trump-Russia investigationIn the autumn of 2015, the founders of the Washington-based intelligence firm Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, were hired by a republican client to look into the records of Donald Trump. What began as a march through…
Kategorier: Informationsteknik
THE MOUTH-WATERING FIRST BOOK FROM CUPCAKE JEMMA’S ICONIC LONDON BAKERY, CRUMBS & DOILIES
Cupcake Jemma has been teaching the world to bake through her hugely successful YouTube channel for almost a decade. In their first ever book, Jemma and her team unlock the secrets to creating wonderfully imaginative…
*WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY**A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022*
’No one interested in the history of Europe can afford not to read this stupendous book’ Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five…
Kategorier: Konst
An indispensable guide and call to action to take control of our economic power and hold corporations to a higher standard’A pragmatic and original roadmap to transform capitalism into a system that’s more inclusive, sustainable, and just’Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, President of The Rockefeller…
The stunning new novel about the joys and heartbreaks of a family divided and reunited, from the bestselling author of the Richard & Judy selection Love, Iris’I loved this book’ Katie FfordeThe Chamberlain family used to be close. Charlie and Daphne were happily married, and their children Laura,…
A 16-year old American boy relates in his own words the experiences he goes through at school and after, and reveals with unusual candour the workings of his own mind. What does a boy in his teens think and feel about his teachers, parents, friends and acquaintances?
Kategorier: Informationsteknik
’Levy portrays a tech company where no one is taking responsibility for what it has unleashed’ Financial Times’This fascinating book reveals the imperial ambitions of Facebook’s founder’ James Marriott, Sunday Times’The inside story of how Facebook went from idealism to…
’I couldn’t imagine a better guidebook for making sense of a tragic and momentous time in our lives. Covid by Numbers is comprehensive yet concise, impeccably clear and always humane’ Tim Harford
How many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus? What…
Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions – and the dangers – of the twentieth-century World.
Her writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, Fascism and…
Teeming with life and crackling with energy – a love song to modern Britain, to black womanhood, to the ever-changing heart of London Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY
The ’conquistadores’, the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian…
Kategorier: Föroreningar och miljöhot Geovetenskap, geografi, miljö och samhällsplanering Klimatförändringar Miljön
The world-renowned naturalist and conservationist Jane Goodall has spent more than a half-century warning of our impact on our planet. From her famous encounters with chimpanzees in the forests of Gombe as a young woman to her tireless campaigning for the environment in her late eighties, Jane has become the godmother…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd
Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the tools you need to get through life’s ups and downs. Filled with secrets from the therapy room, this is a must-have handbook for optimising your mental health. Dr Julie’s simple but expert advice and…
’I love it, I love it, I love it. Just reading this makes you more content’ Chris Evans’Comforting and cosy for the heart and soul’ Fearne Cotton’This book will help you make your home somewhere you feel comfortable, safe and calm’ Emma GunsA gorgeous guide to the Danish art of…
Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. A GLOBAL BESTSELLER. STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY.
With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to the future with optimism but renewed uncertainty. The End of…
The American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with the fight for civil rights. She wants to end it all. But then she finds herself in the hands of a Black faith community, and the fabled healer Minnie Ransom. As she works through the rage and…
’Brilliant and disturbing’ Stephen Spender, New York Review of BooksThe classic work on ’the banality of evil’, and a journalistic masterpieceHannah Arendt’s stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker…
He was meant to be the perfect man, until she discovered the hidden truth … A gripping story of love, heartbreak and one devastating confession that changes everything. Pre-order the suspenseful new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of Thursdays in the Park, The Anniversary, The Lie and The…
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.
With warmth, tenderness and quiet wit, Oscar Wilde’s fables and fairy tales have moved and delighted for generations. In…
The greatest novel of the twentieth century, now in a beautiful Clothbound Classics centenary edition
Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition. It has…
Pre-order Evan Smoak’s thrilling return in The Last Orphan, when everything changes and everything is at risk.
As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep…
THE 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIAL
After the Internet, what came next?
Enter the Metaverse – cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street – the Metaverse’s main drag – is Snow…
From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime
’A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it. For as long as I could make it last, the world just felt a bit nicer.’ Meg Mason
’Wonderful . . . Her best yet’…
The Penguin English Library Edition of Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James”I’m a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?”
This edition contains two of Henry James’s most popular short works.
Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller,…
’AMAZING TWISTS. UNPUTDOWNABLE’ Sunday Times bestseller Samantha DowningTHE CHILLING SERIAL KILLER THRILLER FROM THE CO-HOST OF CHART-TOPPING PODCAST MORBID
WREN WAS NEVER AFRAID OF THE DARK. UNTIL SHE LEARNED THAT SOME MONSTERS ARE REAL . . ._________
In deep Louisiana, a serial killer with a taste for…
Pre-order Endless War, the epic final chapter in The Bridge Kingdom series . . .
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THREE LIFE-CHANGING CHOICES, TWO STAR-CROSSED LOVERS, AND ONE UNCLAIMED DESTINY . . .
Newly crowned as king of Maridrina, Keris watches powerless as his forbidden relationship with Zarrah is exposed.
He knows there is only one…
’A natural follow up to Susan Cain’s Quiet’ – The Sunday Times Style
’The authors paint an illuminating portrait of highly sensitive people’ – Financial Times
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Have you ever been told you’re too sensitive? Welcome to the club.
Nearly 1 in 3 people have the genes to…