Penguin Books

Public Confessions of Middle-Aged Woman (B)

Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend – sun-worshippers, work-shy writers, garden centre lovers and those in search of a good time are all welcome … Over the last decade, Sue Townsend has written a monthly column...

Puck of Pook`s Hill

R. Kipling

Puck of Pook`s Hill is Kipling`s magical evocation of England`s history, a joyous celebration of all that is best in a country and its peoples. In a sleepy meadow by a mill-stream, Dan and Una act out their version...

Puckoon

Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse

Quentin Blake is one of the best loved of children`s illustrators. This book selects and illustrates his favourite comic verse. His unique style of drawing brings a fresh perspective to each poem. It combines classic...

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

Urging you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable, this book is a manifesto for anyone who wants to help create products and services that are worth...

Quartet

Rabbit is Rich

It`s 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He`s walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That`s OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It`s all in place: he`s Chief...

Rabbit Redux

It`s 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren`t as simple as they used to be - at least,...

Rabbit, Run

It`s 1959 and Harry Rabbit` Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six, he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of...

Rabbit at Rest

It`s 1989, and Harry `Rabbit` Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern....

Ragtime

Railway Children

E. Nesbit E. NeStudent’s Bookit

Rain Man. Film

Fleischer

When Charlie Babbitt`s father dies, he thinks he will inherit a lot of money. However, the money goes to someone Charlie doesn`t know, someone who lives in a hospital and turns out to be the brother that Charlie never...

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters

Ralphs Party

Meet the residents of 31 Almanac Road Ralph and Smith are flatmates and best mates until, that is, the gorgeous Jemima moves in. And suddenly they`re bickering about a lot more than who drank the last beer. Of course,...

Rape of Nanking

This "New York Times" national bestseller recounts the forgotten story of the brutal massacre of 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese army. "Anyone interested in the relation between war, self-righteousness, and...

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa - one of Japan`s foremost stylists and a modernist master whose short stories are marked by imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. His other works include: Rashomon; In a Bamboo...

Reading Group

A New Year. Five women gather for their first ever Reading Group; each is uncertain, clasping her expectations and fears close to her chest. A New Page. Harriet and Nicole are best friends who find themselves - in...

Red Badge of Courage

Crane

Stephen Crane's American Civil War masterpiece The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest of all war novels. Two days of fighting on a woodland battlefield are focused through the excited senses of a raw...

Red Cavalry and Other Stories

Red Flag: Communism & Making of Modern World TPB

Communism was one of the most powerful political and intellectual movements of the modern world; at the height of its influence over a third of the world`s population lived under Communist rule. This title presents an...

Red Queen New Ed

So begins The Red Queen - the tale of how a young girl in eighteenth-century Korea is picked from obscurity to be consort to the Crown Prince. Though inhabiting a jade, silk and jewelled world, the Crown Princess must...

Regarding the Pain of Others. S. Sontag

Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag`s searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. From Goya`s Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia,...

Regeneration

Barker

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