Penguin Books

Between a Mother and her Child

Between the Acts

Outwardly a novel about life in a country house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, Between the Acts is also a striking evocation of English experience in the months leading up to the Second World War. Through...

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Beyond The Blonde

Kathleen Flynn-Hui - hairdresser to the stars - takes readers behind the frosted glass panels of the top salons and into the glamorous and bitchy world of women (and men) who`d kill for a handful of honeyed...

BFG: Plays for Children

Following the success of his stage adaptation of The BFG, David Wood has now written a series of scenes, or playlets for performance by children in schools and other amateur groups. With notes on simple staging, props...

Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

`We fed the monster until it blew ` While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune....

Billy Budd

When Billy, a handsome, unpretentious, stuttering young able-seaman, is falsely accused of inciting mutiny, he lashes out, kills his accuser and is condemned to die. Written in allusive and beautiful prose,...

Billy Budd, Sailor

Herman Melville

The last great work of Melville\'s seafaring genius was Billy Budd, Sailor, set aboard H. M. S. Bellifwtent. When Billy, a handsome, unpretentious, stuttering young able-seaman, is falsely accused of inciting...

Binge Trading: Cash, Cocaine & Corruption

The City of London is one vast casino. For the last decade traders and bankers have gambled with their own money, their clients` money, and our pension funds. They won millions; we lost billions. "Binge Trading: The...

Birthday Present (A, OM)

The latest Vine novel, published by Viking in August, is called The Birthday Present, and I believe it is destined to take its place beside the very best of her novels. It has a sensational plot: a right-wing...

Bitch in the House

Hanauer

Black Misterief. Черная глыба

When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are...

Black Arrow

R.L. Stevenson

Black Beauty

Анна Сьюэлл

Black Beauty is handsome and spirited, with a sweet temper. When he is four years old he is sold to a new owner who gently breaks him in. He is no longer free to gallop around the fields yet there is happiness and...

Black Diamonds

Blandings Castle. Умиротворяющий замок

P. Woodhouse

Bleak House

C. Dickens

Blood and Guts. A Short History of Medicine

Blue Monday

Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspaper front pages. His parents and the police are desperate. Can anyone help find their little boy before it is too late?...

Boll, Aichinger, Bender: German Short Stories 1. Deutsche Kurzgeschichten

Book of Dave: Revelation of Recent Past & Distant Future

What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels...

Book of the Flower Fairies (HB)

This enchanting collection of art and poetry features Cicely Mary Barker`s most exquisite Flower Fairy paintings and poems from the following books: Flower Fairies of the Spring, Flower Fairies of the Summer, Flower...

Book of Nonsense

E. Lear

Bookends

Green

Cath and Si are best friends. Total opposites, always together, and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatty, messy, and emotionally closed. Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy, and desperate for a man of his own. When Portia...

Border Crossing