Language & Literary Studies

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

The transcript of the one and only conversation between 'the four horsemen' of New Atheism, with new introductions from Dawkins, Dennett and Harris and a sparkling foreword by Stephen Fry.

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

A beautiful hardback edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein, to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the book's publication

Wuthering Heights has achieved an almost mythical status as a love story, yet it is also a unique masterpiece of the imagination: an unsettling, transgressive novel about obsession, violence and death.

Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four 'little women' enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England. The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations.

Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics.

The final book from the beloved author of A Year in Provence: recollections from twenty-five years in France—lessons learned, culinary delights, and changes observed.

The extraordinary real story of power, corruption and greed that inspired the major Netflix series from José Padilha, the creator of Narcos