Bonjour Tristesse (Penguin Great Loves)
Cecile leads a hedonistic, frivolous life with her father and his young mistresses. On holiday in the South of France, she is seduced by the sun, the sand and her first lover. But when her father decides to remarry,...
"The Book of the Dead" is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire a new meaning. Starting over with a unique private forensic pathology...
Books v. Cigarettes (Penguin Great Ideas)
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked...
In this latest In Death thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Lieutenant Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers - both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm...
The remarkable story of Roald Dahl`s early years at school and with his family. Like his stories, Dahl`s childhood tales are unmissable. This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover and a new end section of facts...
Roald Dahl`s life was as bizarre, exciting and funny as the stories he wrote, and here is the whole of his own extraordinary autobiography in one volume. With a new Quentin Blake cover and a whole new end section of...
Steeplechase jockey Christmas "Kit" Fielding has had more than his share of close calls both on and off the course. But trouble hits close to home when a grudge between his family and his sister`s in-laws turns into a...
Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Завтрак у Тиффани
Truman Capote`s dazzling New York novel Breakfast at Tiffany`s that inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. `What I`ve found does the...
At 66, Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But no one is aware of it - of them is ready to take the plunge and fall in love; another is torn between two very...
Can We Still Be Friends is the debut novel by Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue. It`s the summer of 1983 and best friends, Salome, Annie and Kendra have left university to embark on adulthood. Three very...
"The Canterbury Tales", compiled in the late fourteenth century, is an incisive portrait, infused with Chaucer`s wry wit and vibrant, poetical language. He evokes a spectrum of colourful characters, from the bawdy...
Welcome to Meadowbank, an exclusive school for privileged young ladies. A fine lot. A dangerous one, too. Two teachers have already bitten the dust. It`s obvious to Hercule Poirot that someone is out to scratch...
"Big Daddy" Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an...
Charlie and Great Glass Elevator Ned
Picking right up where "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" left off, "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" continues the adventures of Charlie Bucket, his family, and Willy Wonka, the eccentric candy maker. As the...
The tale of how a little girl named Fern, with the help of a friendly spider, saved her pig Wilbur from the usual fate of nice fat little pigs.
Charlie and Chocolate Factory (Ned)
Charlie Bucket loves chocolate. And Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his amazing chocolate factory to five lucky children. It s the prize of a lifetime! Gobstoppers,...
April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive is raised from a Montana lake. Inside are the remains of three men who died forty-four years 1906: For two years, the western states of America have endured a string...
When newlywed Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman are left to their wedding night, Bayardo discovers that his new wife is no virgin. Disgusted, he returns Angela to her family home that very night, where her...
