Penguin Group

A History of the World in 100 Objects

This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and...

A Little Princess

A Mans Head``

A Match Made in High School

A Modest Proposal

A Moment of War

A Simple Heart

A Small Town in Germany

West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has...

A Small Circus

A Study in Scarlet

A Tale of Two Cities

A Zoo in My Luggage

`For many years I had wanted to start a zoo . . . any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely...

About a Boy (Ned)

Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient, and blithely living off his father`s novelty-song royalties. Will sees...

Accidental Woman

For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Friendship passes her by, and she`s unimpressed by the devoted Ronny and his endless proposals of marriage. Maria lives in a world of her own - yet not...

Across the Universe

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber...

Adrian Mole: Prostrate Years

Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not...

Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years

Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semidetached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not...

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The

Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from their dens of The twelve mysteries gathered in this first collection of Sherlock Holmes...

Aesops Fables (Ned)

Although the Greek slave Aesop was executed over 2,000 years ago, his fables continue to exert a strong influence on readers of all ages. They are well known to children even before they can read and form an essential...

Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Alices Adventures in Wonderland & Through Looking Glass (Clothbound Classics) HB ***

A fresh, practical approach to two of Lewis Carroll`s most beloved works, which chronicle the magical, captivating adventures of Alice of Wonderland.

Alices Adventures in Wonderland``

Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

The young Alice follows a hasty hare underground-to come face-to-face with some of the strangest adventures in all of literature. In this arresting parody of the fears, anxieties, and complexities of growing up,...

Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Famed for his illustrations of such classics as Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Willy Pogany created striking drawings for Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland in 1929. This splendid edition...

All Tomorrow`s Parties