Penguin Books

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez, G.G.(PMC)

`Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.` Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their...

One-hit Wonder

Orientalism

For generations now, Edward `s "Orientalism" has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this "Penguin Modern Classics" edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In...

Othello

W. Shakespeare

Othello

"So will I turn her virtue into pitch And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all". As an incarnation of evil and a catalyst of jealousy, vengeance and murder, Iago is the mainspring of...

Other Voices, Other Rooms

When Joel Knox`s mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there, everyone is curiously evasive when Joel asks to see his father....

Other Womans Shoes

Martha appears to have the perfect life: two lovely children and plenty of money. Eliza lives in a rented, one-bedroom flat with her musician boyfriend Greg, and all her maternal feelings are lavished on her dog. When...

Otherland 3: mountain of black glass

T. Williams

Other Stories and Other Stories

Short story collection first published by Granta in 1999.

Out of Africa

`I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills ... Up in this high air you breathed easily ... you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be` From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in...

Out of Africa

Blixen

From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the...

Out of Shelter

The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy`s early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister Kath invites him to spend the summer at...

Outliers: Story of Success (OM)

Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? In his provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes,...

Outsider

Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increase his guilt in the eyes of the law,...

Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying

During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in the RAF and suffered horrific injuries in an air crash in the Libyan desert. Drawing on his own experience as a fighter pilot, Dahl crafted these ten spine-tingling...

Owl Killers

England, 1321. Deep in the heart of countryside lies an isolated village governed by a sinister regime of Owl Masters - theirs is a pagan world of terror and blackmail, where neighbour denounces neighbour and sin is...

Pair of Blue Eyes

Т. Hardy

Panic! Story of Modern Financial Insanity

From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble to mortgage meltdown, our lives are ruled by crazy cycles of euphoria and hysteria that manage to grip the world but are all-too-soon...

Pants on Fire

Alderson

When Georgia Abbot`s fiance cheats on her she leaves her humdrum life in London for a job at "Glow" magazine in Sydney, Australia. At first things seem promising, as she`s swept up in a whirl of parties, dancing and...

Paper Money (MM)

Crime, high finances, and journalism are interconnected in this early thriller by the author of “On Wings of Eagles” and “Lie Down With Lions”. In one suspenseful, action-packed day, fortunes change hands as an...

Paradise Lost

J. Milton

Passage to India

What did happen to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalizing question provides the intense drama at the centre of Forster`s last and greatest novel, of racial tension in colonial India. After a mysterious...

Passanger to

Forster

Passport to Russian

A basic Russian dictionary and phrasebook for the traveler (which, just in case, includes a section entitled Point to Answer). Organized thematically, common words and expressions are shown in English and Cyrillic...

Pen Pals

Goldsmith

The master of the witty women`s novel returns with the story of a Wall Street whiz who naively agrees to take the fall for her boss`s SEC violations...and to her surprise, winds up trading in her Armani suit for an...