April, 1984. Winston Smith thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in...
Sante was a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden with treasure. It seems she is the sole survivor of the tragic sinking of a ship carrying...
Spanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation. The sweep of American history and the current state...
A collection of exquisitely crafted essays by Ben Okri, one of Britain's foremost poets, and a Booker Prize-winning novelist, that explore such diverse themes as childhood and creativity, beauty, censorship,...
A new collection by a controversial Afrikaans poet. In Alles het niet kom wôdNathan Trantraal writes with the same vigour and enthusiasm of his debut, Chokers en survivors. While the...
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has neglected his livestock for too long. In a burst of insurgent fervour...
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION** A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a period of vigilance and dread in...
A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's best-known story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout.Elizabeth Bennet is the second eldest in a family of five daughters. Although...
Black Beauty is a handsome, sweet-tempered colt with a strong spirit. As a young colt he is free to gallop in the fresh green meadows with his beloved mother, Duchess,...
Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's astonishing new collection of poems, the first since "Book of Mercy" was published nearly three decades ago. Leonard Cohen made his name as a...
The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older...
DesByron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic flaws redeemed by a magnetism...
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also...
A simplified and shortened retelling of the Chaucer classic which remains faithful to the original Middle English text in the treatment of the story. Dimensions : 133 x 195 x...
Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is...
This is the story of a little girl named Fern who loved a little pig named Wilbur and of Wilburs dear friend, Charlotte A. Cavatica, a beautiful large grey spider....
A witty portrait of rural England in the early twentieth century, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Stella Gibbons' "Cold Comfort Farm" is introduced by Lynne Truss, author of "Eats, Shoots...
This beautifully illustrated collection contains all of Jane Austen's novels retold for young readers, including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park, with notes on the...
William Shakespeare ( 1564- 1616 ), who remains the most widely known and admired writer in English literature, was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1564, a son of John Shakespeare...
A young, shy, sickly priest is assigned to his first parish, a sleepy village in northern France. Though his faith is devout, he finds nothing but indifference and mockery. The...
