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Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets.…
The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and Grandmothers Artist, Hassie Days, and her sister, Margot, buy a run down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the Welsh Marches. While Margot continues her London life in high finance, Hassie is left alone to work the large,…
In this landmark work, four of the world’s leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism. As a politics and as a practice, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment, amplified through the worldwide protests following the 2020…
’Brilliant. You won’t find a clearer, more engaging guide to what we know (or would like to know) about the universe and how it is put together’ Bill BrysonCelebrated physicist and global bestselling author Paul Davies tells the story of the universe in thirty cosmological conundrumsIn the…
’I didn’t choose the wench life. The wench life chose me’
Emily’s moved to the small Maryland town of Willow Creek for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident. But when teenage niece Caitlin volunteers for the local Renaissance Faire, Emily’s suddenly signing up too as a . .…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd
Is more data always better?Do algorithms really make better decisions than humans?Can we stay in control in an increasingly automated world?
Drawing on examples from all spheres of life – media literacy, online dating, self-driving cars, the justice system, health records – Gerd Gigerenzer shows how, when…
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.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from…
A party of swashbuckingly evil pirates. Two rival spies. One fake marriage. What could possibly go wrong . . . Find out in the riotously funny and joyfully romantic third book in The Dangerous Damsels collection When rumours circulate that a group of dastardly pirates plan to assassinate the Queen, Alice is immediately…
Elegant, mature and richly atmospheric, a bittersweet love story glimpsed through the veil of memory
’The love child of Normal People and Brideshead Revisited… Sublime and elegiac’ Francesca Reece
’[A] heady mix of hope and nostalgia, of desire and regret, of new love and lost love’…
THE INTOXICATING NEW LANCASTER PREP NOVEL FROM THE TIKTOK SENSATION AND AUTHOR OF A MILLION KISSES IN YOUR LIFETIME
Weston Fontaine is the hottest senior at Lancaster Prep.
He could have any girl on campus, except for one.
Me.
I’m a Lancaster, meaning I’m basically untouchable – or so I thought. My…
’At turns hilarious and wise, another knockout from the champ’ Taylor Jenkins Reid, DAISY JONES AND THE SIX’One of my favourite authors’ Colleen Hoover, IT ENDS WITH US’Smart, sunny, sexy and also a gorgeous story of female friendship’ Beth O’Leary, THE…
THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her…
Pre-order the next instalment in The Lancaster Prep series now!
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Nobody in our class pays attention to Daisy Albright and I think she likes it that way.
But when I’m sent to work in the headmaster’s office every day with Daisy I am stuck staring at her pretty face, hearing her sweet voice and I start…
House witch Finlay Ashowan is pulled out of the kitchen-and into the fire-as war, family, and love collide in the third book of this fantasy romance series.
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Having somehow convinced Lady Annika Jenoure to marry him, all Finlay Ashowan wants to do is settle down, cook some good meals, and enjoy a quiet life in…
The Penguin English Library Edition of Persuasion by Jane Austen’Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect’Persuasion, Jane Austen’s last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, teenager Will Grayson crosses paths with…”Will Grayson”! Two teens with the same name who run in two very different circles suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions. Culminating in epic turns-of-heart on both of their parts,…
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera. ’It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.’ Fifty-one…
On a north London high street, a runaway vehicle crashes to a halt. The man in the driving seat was murdered a week earlier.
On Hampstead Heath, a bonfire blazes: in the flames lies the next victim.
As autumn leaves fall, a serial killer runs amok in the capital, playing games with the police. The death toll is rising…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Little Lien wasn’t taken from her Jewish parents – she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart…
Kategorier: Tecknade romaner, serier och skämtteckningar
The German bestseller – a powerful and deeply affecting graphic memoir that explores identity, guilt and the meaning of home *WINNER of the The National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography*One of the Guardian’s ’50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018’The New York Times Critics’ Top Books…
In Iran, 1953, a driver named Behrouz discovers an abandoned baby in an alleyway. When he adopts her, naming her Aria, he has no idea how profoundly this fiery, blue-eyed orphan will shape his future.
As she grows, Aria is torn between the three women fated to mother her: the wife of Behrouz, who beats her; the…
’A ludicrously well-connected magazine impresario. Whimsical tales of Bob Geldof, William Hague, Princess Diana and George Osborne jostle with recollections of glitzy parties at castles and producing the Eton magazine with Craig Brown. It’s gossipy good fun’ Sunday Times.
’A deliciously moreish…
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. Beautiful, clever, rich – and single – Emma Woodhouse…
’Precisely written, resolutely unsentimental… A compelling book, beautifully written and with startling imagery – emotionally wrenching and poignant in equal measure’ The Booker Prize Judges 2020.
In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram, took a hapless…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
For the past fifty years, Louise Gluck has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for her development of a particular form: the book-length sequence of poems. This volume brings together the twelve collections Gluck has published…
California’s fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of the First World War, the Trasks and the Hamiltons will helplessly replay the fall of Adam and Eve and the…
George Orwell’s masterwork, now in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series with a cover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
One of the BBC’s ’100 Novels that Shaped the World’
’Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’
Hidden away in the…
We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our…
Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world’Leaders,’ writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, ’think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second between the abiding values and…
’Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and the ordinary citizen’ Kai BirdBest-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear…
The instant Sunday Times bestseller — a beautiful story of rebellion and science
Shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize
’A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science, but even more magical’ Financial TimesIn June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering…
A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain’s best biographers How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells’ life shape the father of science fiction?
From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the…
**A must-read thriller for lovers of The Passage, World War Z, The Martian or Interstellar**What happens when you make a discovery that changes everything?
Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly, the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees…
Kategorier: Hälsa, sjukdom och missbruk: sociala aspekter Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala och etiska frågor
’A virtuoso feat … a book of panoramic breadth’ New York Times Book Review
’A devastating analysis … Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives’ The ObserverJust as Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century’s first…
Following his New York Times bestseller How the World Really Works, Vaclav Smil returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth (and beyond) – from microbes to economies and the expanding universe To answer the most important questions of our age, and secure our future, we must…