PENGUIN BOOKS

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 Friendship, family, love, work, dreams, clothes, longing, losing and being happy . . . great stories about the lives of teenage girls and women, b...

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 ...

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 ...

Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. He is a ghostwriter for celebrities, and a foodie, whose weird tastes include '...

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...

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...