Penguin Books

Stalin and His Hangmen

Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin`s...

Stand

S. King

Stars and Bars

Stepmother

S. Tolkien

Steppenwolf

This Faust-like and magical story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope was described in The New York Times as a `savage indictment of bourgeois society`. But, as the author notes in this edition,...

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

P.G. Wodehouse

In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, fate conspires to draw Bertie Wooster back to Totleigh Towers, the site of an earlier ordeal that nearly landed our hero in prison and, worse still, in continuing danger of marriage to...

Stiff: Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise? Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach`s Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our...

Still Thinking of You

Tash and Rich are newly engaged and wild about each other. They can`t wait to celebrate their wedding with their closest friends, all of whom have known each other since university, where they enjoyed a hedonistic...

Stone Cold (Puffin Teenage Fiction)

A tense, exciting thriller combined with a perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable homeless. 17-year-old Link is distrustful of people until he...

Story of Fierce Bad Rabbit

To mark the centenary of The Tale of Peter Rabbit all 23 Original Peter Rabbit Books are being re-launched.

Story of Miss Moppet

To mark the centenary of The Tale of Peter Rabbit all 23 Original Peter Rabbit Books are being re-launched.

Story of Painting

An illustrated journey through the history of painting Known to millions through her television series and described as "the best talker on art since Lord Clark gave us Civilisation", Sister Wendy Beckett now brings...

Straight Talking

Green

This could be about your best friend. Or your girlfriend. Or it might be about you. Are you Tasha - single and still searching? Are you one of her three best friends? Andy, hooked on passion; Mel, stuck in a steady...

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Studies in Hysteria

Stuff of Thought: Language as Window into Human Nature (B)

The Stuff of Thought is an exhilarating work of non-fiction. Surprising, thought-provoking and incredibly enjoyable, there is no other book like it - Steven Pinker will revolutionise the way you think about language....

Submarine. Подводная лодка

Summer

Summer Crossing

Grady beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense something is going to...

Sunset Song

Superfreakonomics

Sushi for beginners

Keyes

?Dammit,? she realized. ?I think I?m having a nervous Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards? career is destined for high-rise New York when suddenly she?s diverted to low-rise Dublin. But what can she do about it?...

Sushi for Beginners (A)

Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards` career is destined for high-rise New York when suddenly she`s diverted to low-rise Dublin. But what can she do about it? Ashling Kennedy, Lisa`s super-organized assistant,...

Sweet Thursday

Returning to the scene of Cannery Row - the weedy lots, junk heaps and flop houses of Monterey - Steinbeck brings to life in Sweet Thursday the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears. He again explores the...

Sword of Honour