Penguin Group
Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-perfect Answers to the Most-asked Questions About Language
98%
Long-time word-detective and bestselling author of «Port Out», «Starboard Home», Michael Quinion…
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
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Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife and daughter, estranged from his…
The Story of England
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The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has an ancient…
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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»Read it yourself» is a learning to read series of classic, traditional stories with four levels of…
The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate The World
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Does free information mean free people? At the start of the twenty-first century we were promised…
My Family and Other Animals
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'What we all need', said Larry, 'is sunshine... a country where we can grow'. 'Yes, dear, that…
Let Our Fame be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus
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The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks and rugged people, who for over 200 years have…
The Throne of Fire
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Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed on the modern world, Carter Kane and his…
The High Window
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Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare…
Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language
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Go anywhere in the world today and you'll see or hear English in some form. It may not necessarily…
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
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How did George Eliot's love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In…
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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In a climate when iconoclasm is the smartest intellectual stance — whether against bankers,…
All the Devils are Here: Unmasking the Men Who Bankrupted the World
76%
As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on greedy…
A Diary of the Lady: My First Year as Editor
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'The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty, tatty, disorganized and impossibly…
The Postmistress
77%
It is 1940, and bombs fall nightly on London. In the thick of the chaos is young American radio…
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
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China's Communist Party is the largest, most powerful political machine in the world. Here, for the…
Our Kind of Traitor
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An English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of…
Jamie's Great Britain
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Celebrating Britain's very best food Jamie grew up in one of the first true British «gastropubs»,…
The Help
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Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white…
Great House
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During the winter of 1972, a woman spends a single night with a young Chilean poet before he…