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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 detailsI count
AÂ practical, whinge-free guide that tells you how to stop climate chaos. So don't feel bad, feel good. Discover the power of off, find your favouri...
View full detailsCooking with Fernet Branca
Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. He is a ghostwriter for celebrities, and a foodie, whose weird tastes include '...
View full detailsOf Mice & Men
Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other and a dream a dream that one d...
View full detailsPaddington Minds the House
Who's your Paddington? He's polite, well-meaning but full of misadventure.We love surprises and so does Paddington. Left to his own devices, Paddin...
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