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• Author(s): David Crystal • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had...

• Author(s): Martin Gayford • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMartin Gayford presents a fascinating, atmospheric account of an intense period in the life of one of the world's most popular painters, Vincent Van ...

• Author(s): Daniel C. Dennett • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOffering a challenge to society and a different history of belief, this book discusses why and how different faiths have commanded allegiance and ...

• Author(s): Noam Chomsky • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe United States asserts the right to use military force against 'failed states' around the globe. But as Noam Chomsky argues in this devastating anal...

• Author(s): Katherine Mansfield • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdInnovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically...

• Author(s): Katherine Mansfield • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionKatherine Mansfield's short stories revolutionised the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her w...

• Author(s): Peter Hennessy • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWinner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Peter Hennessy's Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties captures Britain in an extraordinary dec...

• Author(s): Marisha Pessl • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'It had been almost a year since I'd found Hannah dead, and I thought I'd managed to erase all traces of that night within myself. I was wrong.' Speci...

• Author(s): Ed Husain • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe true story of one man's journey to Islamic fundamentalism and back Raised in a devout but quiet Muslim community in London, at sixteen Ed Husain was ...

• Author(s): Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEveryone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or ...

• Author(s): Winston Churchill • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWinston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With ...

• Author(s): James Lovelock • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJames Lovelock's bestselling The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back - and How we can Still Save Humanity is a dire warning against the u...

• Author(s): John Updike • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, div...

• Author(s): John Updike • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen a history professor, Alf Clayton, is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history a...

• Author(s): Adam Tooze • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAdam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy provides a groundbreaking new account of how Hitler established himsel...

• Author(s): Leonard Cohen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis collection of poems contains erotic, playful and provocative line drawings by the author, which interact in unexpected ways on the page with poet...

• Author(s): Olga Grushin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdStepping out into the dusk of a warm Moscow evening, esteemed art critic, Anatoly Sukhanov feels on top of the world: his career is glittering, his wif...

• Author(s): John Lewis Gaddis • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. Inte...

• Author(s): Peter Shaffer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn t recognize...

• Author(s): Peter Shaffer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSelf-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking exploration of the limits ...

• Author(s): Kwame Anthony Appiah • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis text challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives the ancient philosophy...

• Author(s): Adam Phillips • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAdam Phillip's short book, now issued with a new preface, is an attempt to get to grips with a writer, pediatrician and psychoanalyst whose work with ...

• Author(s): Paul Arden • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis is a probing look at the nature of God. The author uses a series of poignant, contemporary vignettes to interrogate the questions that have persiste...

• Author(s): Laura Barber • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTaking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages' of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English ...

• Author(s): Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralIt is believed that the only way the Khasi people could learn of Gods word was by passing on the stories of their forefathers.The...

• Author(s): Penguin India • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Puffin • BISAC: GeneralA collection of stories - some serious, some funny, some in between, written by the children stories writers in India. This book contains st...

• Author(s): Aristophanes • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThree plays from Aristophanes, the master of Ancient Greek comedy Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collecte...

• Author(s): Will Self • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'The Book of Dave' is based around the rants of Dave Rudman - a disgruntled East End taxi driver - who writes his woes down and buries them, only to have ...

• Author(s): James Salter • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends and near-perfe...

• Author(s): James Salter • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdCaptain Cleve Connell's goal in Korea is to achieve five kills that will make him an ace and a hero. However, he does not encounter the enemy on his mi...

• Author(s): Helen Dunmore • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd**FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE, THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017** Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finl...

• Author(s): Ayn Rand • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis is Ayn Rand's story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls. The novel is a passion...

• Author(s): Ayn Rand • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Atlas Shrugged' is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man's body,...

• Author(s): Christopher K. Frantz • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis selection from the 'Subhashitavali', a celebrated verse anthology compiled by Vallabhadeva in 15th-century Kashmir, offers a rich variety...

• Author(s): Arvind Krishna Mehrotra • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaLocated at the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and the invisible Saraswati, Allahabad has been frequented b...

• Author(s): Ranjit Hoskote • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralBrings together poetry from Ranjit Hoskote. Experimenting with a variety of forms, ranging from the canticle to the cycle, the adapted son...

• Author(s): Daniel Silva • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOne morning in Rome, a terrible explosion rips a hole in the Israeli embassy. Moments later, four gunmen cut down survivors as they stagger from the bu...

• Author(s): H. E. Bates • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThere Pop said. There s the house. There s Gore Court for you. What about that, eh? How s that strike you? Better than St Paul s, ain t it, better than...

• Author(s): Ullas K. Karanth • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Animals - WildlifeWritten by a tiger scientist and conservationist, this anthology describes his personal experiences. It is compiled from non ...

• Author(s): John Updike • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTristao Raposo, a 19 year-old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an 18 year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of the Copaca...

• Author(s): R J B Bosworth • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFor almost all nations the First World War was an unparalleled disaster, but the Italian experience especially was to have catastrophic consequences....

• Author(s): Kobo Abe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist, is held captive at the bottom of a vast sand pit where he is pressed into shovelling off...

• Author(s): Kobo Abe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident - a man who has lost his face and, with it, connection to other people. Even his wi...

• Author(s): Amartya, FBA Sen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity brings together an illum...

• Author(s): Tucker Max • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTucker Max drinks to excess at inappropriate times, disregards social norms, indulges every whim, takes no responsibility for his actions, rebels against...

• Author(s): Sam Selvon • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBoth devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London nove...

• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a 22 year-old Russian emigre of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Hoping...

• Author(s): Shahid Amin • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Asia - India & South Asia

• Author(s): Graham Coleman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe most graceful English translation of this masterpiece of world literature - prepared with the participation of the Dalai Lama and eminent contemp...

• Author(s): Edward Lear • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the wonderfully varied ways in which he pursued h...

• Author(s): Stephen Hawking • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'God Created the Integers' is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He provides us with exerpts from orig...

• Author(s): Sigmund Freud • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBy a detailed investigation of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, Freud discovered a radical new way of exploring the unconscious and recognized th...

• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAn inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horror, t...

• Author(s): Truman Capote • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Summer Crossing' is the story of a 17-year-old girl who has been left in New York while her parents spend the summer in Europe. It is a coming-of-age...

• Author(s): Bernardine Evaristo • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdStanley Williams, angst-ridden banker and boffin, wonders whether there's more to life than his daily nine-to-five grind. One night he's dragged...

• Author(s): Colin Tudge • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe author travels from his own back garden around the world to explore the beauty, variety and ingenuity of trees everywhere, from how they live so lon...

• Author(s): Zadie Smith • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen Howard Belsey's oldest son Jerome falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing Monty Kipps, both families find themselves thrown tog...

• Author(s): Robin Lane Fox • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRobin Lane Fox's The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome is a comprehensive and enthralling introduction to Ancient civilization. The...

• Author(s): Robin Lane Fox • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom the second century AD to the conversion of the first Christian emperor, Constantine, Robin Lane Fox's Pagans and Christians in the Mediterranean...

• Author(s): Albert Camus • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAddressing a chance acquaintance in an Amsterdam bar, Jean-Baptiste Clamence remarks that Amsterdam's concentric circles resemble the circles of hell. ...