PENGUIN BOOKS
Discover the power of top-drawer literature to spark your creativity and elevate your thinking. These modern classics offer more than just great stories—they challenge convention, deepen emotional insight, and inspire fresh ideas through masterful language and timeless themes. Unlike fleeting trends, these works invite reflection and connection, helping you see the world in new ways. Explore our selection and find the books that will stay with you, long after the final page.
The Onion's Great Escape - Sara Fanelli
Sara Fanellli's book breaks all the rules: with its unique layout and construction, it is designed to be experienced, like a performance or a game...
View full detailsThe Cardboard Crown
It is 1949, and Guy Langton's houseŠ—”like his family's fortunesŠ—”has seen better days. The wealth and social standing that his grandparent's gene...
View full detailsProust's Overcoat
The story of the overcoat begins with a chance meeting - between an obsessive bibliophile, Jacques Guerin, the head of a French perfume house, an...
View full detailsOne Foot Wrong
A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive religious parents. Hester has never seen the outside world; her companions are Cat, Spoon, Door, ...
View full detailsOff the Rails
This is the true story of two twenty-year-old Australians who travelled for fourteen months on recumbent bicycles from Russia, across Siberia and M...
View full detailsNoni the Pony
From one of our favourite children's authors, Alison Lester, here is her latest picture book. She grew up on a farm in regional Australia and you a...
View full detailsGeronimo Stilton Listen & Read Boxed Set
Two funny Geronimo Stilton adventures (book #13 & #14) plus an audio CD for each book. Lovely box set for your lover of this Rattus Emeritus of...
View full detailsCome Down, Cat! (Hardcover)
The day is ending, night is falling, and Nicholas's cat won't come down. High on the roof she licks her paws while Nicholas worries about her up th...
View full detailsBreath - Tim Winton
When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than his partner - better than the paren...
View full detailsBoy on a Wire
It is the 1960s in Perth, Western Australia. For Thomas Muir cool and steady life is a thing that goes on outside him. But for his brother, hot...
View full detailsBeing Here
Alex and the Watermelon Boat (Hardcover)
The river had burst its banks. The dam was overflowing. 'Don't go outside, Alex!' Mum shouted. But just then Rabbit hopped out the open window ...C...
View full detailsA Balloon for a Blunderbuss (Hardcover) - Bob Gill
A whimsical journey through words and pictures that encourages children to imagine how a butterfly could become an overgrown jungle; to imagine the...
View full detailsJonathan and Martha (Hardcover)
Jonathan and Martha are two lonely worms that live on opposite sides of a tree.One day, a big juicy pear lands on the ground between them. Jonathan...
View full detailsWhat Sport Tells Us About Life
Why will there never be another Bradman?How do you win thirty-three games in a row?Why did Zidane lose his rag on the world's stage? Foraying deep ...
View full detailsWhat I Was
I was at boarding school in East Anglia, my third. I didn't want to be there. But if there had been no school, there would be no Finn. He lived in ...
View full detailsTomorrow Wil Be Beautiful
Friendship, family, love, work, dreams, clothes, longing, losing and being happy . . . great stories about the lives of teenage girls and women, b...
View full detailsThree Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition
With the first cup of tea you are a stranger. With the second . . . a friend. With the third cup of tea, you are family.In 1993, Greg Mortenson tr...
View full detailsThe Winter's Tale
The jealous King of Sicily becomes convinced that his wife is carrying the child of his best friend. Imprisoned and put on trial, the Queen collaps...
View full detailsThe Twin
When Henk's twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brothe...
View full detailsThe Sugar Mother
Her warmest novel, her most moving and possibly the best introduction to her fiction' New York Times Book Review. Edwin Page, an aging but handsome...
View full detailsThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John le Carre
Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good age...
View full detailsThe Pearl
When Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver finds 'the Pearl of the World' he believes that his impoverished life will be magically transformed. He will marry...
View full detailsThe Midnight Zoo
Her muzzle wrinkled, and Andrej saw a glimpse of teeth and pale tongue. 'They smell the same, ' the lioness murmured. 'My cubs smelt as she does. L...
View full detailsThe Mellops Strike Oil (Hardcover)
While on a family picnic Mr Mellops notices the mountain water has an 'awful taste, like oil'. Soon, the intrepid Mellops embark on a quest that ta...
View full detailsThe Hound of the Baskervilles: Red Classic
The bane of a great beast echoes across the moors...Some blame the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville on the legend of a fearsome and ghostly ...
View full detailsThe Great Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with weal...
View full detailsThe Golden Day
There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family. Because it was such a very small class, they had a very sma...
View full detailsThe Georges' Wife
Vera and Mr George have made a new life together but Vera's thoughts return again and again to loves and lovers, meetings and partings - the voices...
View full detailsThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curio...
View full detailsThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
A literary triumph - winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican ...
View full detailsSwerve
One of the country's finest young cellists, 16 year-old Hugh Twycross has a very bright future. A future that has been mapped out by his parents, h...
View full detailsSundae Girl
Jude's family are crazy, quirky, bizarre . . . her mum brings her nothing but trouble and her dad thinks he's Elvis! All she wants is a hassle-free...
View full detailsSomething in the World Called Love
It's true, there's something in the world called love. Esma felt it when she moved into the house with the blue stairs. There was Kara beside her, ...
View full detailsSnipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Yellow Sled
One their way home from school one day, the boys saw a wonderful yellow sled in a shop window. The next day, they started doing a lot of extra work...
View full detailsRose Boys
'... a deeply felt, passionately uplifting story...'Liam Davison. The Weekend AustralianRose Boys is the story of two brothers profoundly different...
View full detailsRaw Blue
Readers of Tim Winton's Breath will be drawn to Kirsty Eagar's Raw Blue, an achingly beautiful young adult novel set in Sydney's northern beaches. ...
View full detailsOnly Ever Always
Who dreams the dreamer? Claire lives in an ordinary world where everything is whole. But inside Claire is broken. The silvery notes of her music bo...
View full detailsOlive Kitteridge
Olive Kitteridge might be described by some as a battle axe or as brilliantly pushy, by others as the kindest person they had ever met. Olive herse...
View full detailsMrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren...
View full detailsLucky Jim
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new redbrick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Departmen...
View full detailsLive and Let Die - Ian Fleming
Mr Big is a gold thief, Lord of the 'Black Widow' voodoo cult and top SMERSH operative is one of the most dangerous opponents James bond has faced....
View full detailsJuicy Writing
Juicy Writing is a treasure-trove of inspiration and practical advice on creative writing - and on living a confident, creative life - especially f...
View full detailsJoel and Cat Set the Story Straight
Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight is two weeks in the life of Joel Hedges and Cat Davis. Joel would prefer to get through his final year of high ...
View full detailsJarvis 24
So far, Marc E. Jarvis has lost a white football boot, a school tie and a best friend. But there's more in store for him when he completes Work Exp...
View full detailsHoi Polloi
The hilariously compelling memoir that was hailed as an instant classic.'The first time I see drunks beat up my father I'm six and standing at the ...
View full detailsHandling the Truth
In the tradition of Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for wri...
View full detailsGreat Loves: Magnetism
Film star George Hannaford oozes charm. Although women fall at his feet, his marriage is the most solid in the movie business. But when he sees his...
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