Penguin Books Australia

'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race'
DAILY MAIL

'Riveting, superb, terrifying'
OBSERVER

From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilizations continue to haunt us.  How could such mighty societies fall?  And could our skyscrapers one day stand derelict and overgrown...

SUDOKU (SOO-DOH-KOO): a 9x9 logic puzzle to superheat the very core of your brain and to challenge your numeracy, spacial awareness and problem-solving abilities.

WARNING: the five levels of The Penguin Sudoku Challenge: Volume 2 may leave you smugly grinning, scratching your head, sighing deeply, snapping your pencil - and maybe  even throwing your book at the wall.

But you also have permission...

The most influential and talked about book on society in the last decade – now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited.

'Profound . . . brave . . .  transformative . . .  its conclusion is simple: we do better when we're equal'  Lynsey Hanley, Guardian

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than the Japanese do?  Why do Americans have higher rates...

'Unorthodox, devastatingly straightforward and more provocative of actual thought than 99% of books said to be 'thought-provoking'' 
ANDREW MARR

ARE YOU REALLY HAPPY?

Today most of us are richer, healthier, have better homes, cars, food and holidays than ever before. But are we any happier than we were fifty years ago? It seems that as incomes rise, the urge to compare ourselves to others constantly...

'Quite brilliant, inspiring for the layman and an enviable tour de force for the informed reader . . . A wonderful book . . . lucid, exciting and easy to read' 
Literary Review

What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had won the Second? How would England look if there had been no Cromwell? What would the world be like if Communism had never collapsed?...