Penguin Books

Libra

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald`s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability, who...

Life Class

Life and Laughing

Light of Day

Beautifully written, enthralling and unforgettable, The Light of Day is a bold, unconventional tale of love, murder and second chances. Over the course of a single day, we meet George and Sarah who are bound together...

Light Years

Lighthouse: Adam Dalgliesh Mystery

Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers rest and seclusion to over-stressed professionals who have paid the price of getting to the top. But when one of these distinguished visitors is found hanging from the top of...

Little Dorrit

C. Dickens

In `Little Dorrit` Dickens gives us a great satire on poverty and riches. At its centre are William Dorrit, who has been imprisoned for years in Marshalsea debtors` gaol, and his loyal daughter Amy, `Little Dorrit`,...

Little Princess

As a young child Sara Crewe is brought over from India by her father to join a girls` seminary in London. Her greatest joy is to "pretend" things to make life more magical, both for herself and those less fortunate...

Little Women

Little Women is the delightful story of the four March girls and their approach towards womanhood. Meg, the eldest and most beautiful, shrugs off her vanity and social ambition, discovering fulfilment in romantic...

Little Women

Alcott

The good-natured March girls – Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy – manage to lead interesting lives despite Father\'s absence at war and the family\'s lack of money. Whether they\'re making plans for putting on a play or forming...

Live and Let Die

Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner and tool of Mr. Big: master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. But James Bond has no time for hocus pocus. He knows that this criminal heavy hitter...

Liver & Other Stories

"Liver" - Booker prize nominee Will Self`s extraordinary examination of lives out of control. "Magnificent, horribly funny". ("The Times"). "Brilliant. One of the most manically imaginative writers at work today"....

Lolita. Лолита

Владимир Набоков

Witty, sensuous and profound, Nabokov`s story of a middle-aged college professor`s passion for a honey-skinned, pubescent girl is one of the most evocative depictions of unrequited love in the language. Формат: 19 см...

Lolita

V Nabokov

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seecs to possess her, first carnslly and then artistically, out of love, `to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets`. This...

London: The Illustrated History

Discover which prehistoric mammals would once have lived by the River Thames. Take a detailed look at the crystal palace of the Great Exhibition and an early map of the underground. See the locations of medieval...

London Orbital

Lonesome Traveller

As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Jack Kerouac breathlessly records, in prose of pure poetry, the life of the road. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus;...

Long Walk. Долгая прогулка

Every year, on the first day of May, one hundred teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as "The Long Walk". Among this year`s chosen crop is sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty. He knows the rules: that...

Lord Arthur Savile`s Crime

O. Wilde

Lord Jim

J. Conrad

Jim, the first mate aboard the Patna, dreams youthful dreams of heroism and of the daring act that will prove his courage. But when the Patna, on a night crossing of the Arabian Sea, collides with a mysterious...

Lord Jim

Jim, the first mate aboard the Patna, dreams youthful dreams of heroism and of the daring act that will prove his courage. But when the Patna, on a night crossing of the Arabian Sea, collides with a mysterious...

Lost Empire

Lost Illusions

Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole

Adrian Mole has entered early middle age and is now `the same age as Jesus was when he died` (33). Father to the grammatically challenged Glenn, and William, who takes a `Big Boy Arouser` condom to nursery school as...

Lost souls