Penguin Books

King Lear

One of the later plays, "King Lear" is such a powerful depiction of suffering and redemption it is now thought by many to be Shakespeare's greatest creation. When King Lear abdicates his throne and divides his...

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child

`Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don`t slow let`s have a little ` In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fueled by...

Kiss Kiss

More classic twisted tales from Roald Dahl, which explore desire, deceit and the macabre with shocking results. In `Mrs Bixby and the Colonel`s Coat`, a spurned woman tries on the glossy mink coat her lover has given...

Kurt Cobain: Kurt Cobain. Journals

Labels

Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already "fully labelled" in people`s minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be...

Lady With Little Dog and Other Stories

In the final years of his life, Chekhov had reached the height of his powers as a dramatist, and also produced some of the stories that rank among his masterpieces. The poignant `The Lady with the Little Dog` and...

Lady in the Lake and Other Novels

R. Chandler

Lady Chatterley`s Lover

D.H. Lawrence

The story of Constance Chatterley\'s sexual awakening through her affair with Mellors the gamekeeper has remained one of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century. Frustrated and ensnared by her...

Lady Windermere`s Fan

O. Wilde

`Good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either...

Land of Living (A)

Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark, hooded and bound … She doesn’t know where she is nor who it is feeding her, talking to her – threatening to kill her. Yet Abbie has courage and, above all, hope. She escapes her...

Larger Than Life

Georgina fell in love with Hugh Carter the moment she saw him. She`s never loved another man. She was eighteen. She`s now thirty-two and Hugh has finally moved in with her. Faces tend to fall when she mentions that...

Last Chance Saloon

Тага, Katherine and Fintan have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they`ve been living it up in London for ten years. But what have they got to show for it? Sure, Tara`s got her...

Last Chance Saloon

M Keyes

The laugh-out-loud-funny, life-affirming new novel from the bestselling author of Rachel`s Holiday. Tara, Katherine and Fintan have been best friends since they were teenagers in County Clare, in the days of pink...

Last Tycoon

The studio lot looks like `thirty acres of fairyland` the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but...

Last of the Mohicans

F. Cooper

This light-hearted masterpiece tells of the influence Eugenia and her brother Felix exert on their Bostonian cousins when they visit the New World. In the hope of making a wealthy marriage, Eugenia, the Baroness...

Last of Mohicans

Set against the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry in 1757, "The Last of the Mohicans" recounts the story of two sisters, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, who are struggling to be...

Latecomers

Lee Smolin: The Trouble with Physics

Left Hand of God

To read The Left Hand of God is to discover a world of wonder and cruelty, epic grandeur and unspeakable tragedy. It is Thomas Cale's story and before it is done he will have loved, killed, outwitted, saved or...

Legend of a Suicide

Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a 44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by...

Les Miserables

V. Hugo

Les Miserables

Hugo`s epic tale of social injustice, politics, heroism and love is a towering work of Western literature. It follows in particular the fortunes of Jean Valjean who out of extreme poverty steals a loaf of bread and...

Lesser Evil

When Fifi moves to London with her bricklayer boyfriend Dan, her mother is outraged. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds the freedom from her middle-class family background...

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Libra