Language & Literary Studies

Celebrate International Women's Day with the original Sisterhood classics - independent, irrepressible, unforgettable!

The bestselling phenomenon returns with 21 bite-sized lessons to help us understand our troubled times.

'THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. 'Powerful and shaming' Guardian

The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling Mythos. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes.

The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who’s ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn’t fit in.

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party.

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series.

Written by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are the spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe.

These spiritual reflections of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) show a leader trying to make sense of himself and the universe, and cover diverse topics such as the question of virtue, human rationality and the nature of the gods.

Celebrate International Women's Day with the original rebel girls!

Back by popular demand, the original Clothbound Classics edition of Dostoyevsky's masterpiece.

A real-life silent witness from one of Britain's foremost forensic pathologists.

The world's most famous work of horror fiction.

Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and subversive energy, Nietzsche demands that the individual impose their own 'will to power' upon the world.

Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince is the Bible of realpolitik, a tough-minded, pragmatic handbook on how power really works, and how to hold on to it in a dangerous world. How can a leader be strong? Is it better to be feared than loved?

The 'riotous, insanely readable' new novel from the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE

A stunningly beautiful clothbound hardback edition of one of the most famous Gothic horror stories in the world.