Language & Literary Studies

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

**Sapiens showed us where we came from. 21 Lessons guides us through the here and now.**

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.

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.

A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time

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

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.

A new festive sticker activity book with Peppa and all of her friends!

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

The stunning true story of an Alabama serial killer, and the trial that obsessed the author of To Kill a Mockingbird in the years after the publication of her classic novel – a complicated and difficult time in her life that, until now, has been very little examined.

'Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.

The devastating history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015

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.

Why women need wives, and men need lives

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

Filled with wit and wisdom, Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST AND OTHER PLAYS is both a respected and studied collection of literature as well as an audience favorite.

'Every bit as claustrophobic, creepy and chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a century ago' - Ian Rankin

The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history

So begins The Histories, the very first work of history and one of the most dramatic accounts of the ancient world ever written, brought to life again in Tom Holland's gripping new translation.