Penguin Group
Rudolf Nureyev: The Life
99%
Born on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of…
Faith
59%
1995, Scotland — The prison of Cornton Vale. Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years…
World War One: A Short History
67%
The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth…
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
78%
Drawing on a huge range of sources — letters, memoirs, conversations — Orlando Figes tells the…
Fascination
69%
This is William Boyd's third volume of short stories following his acclaimed collections «On the…
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Lustre
89%
Fashion may be fabulous, but what price true luxury? With incredible access to the glamorous world…
The Rotters' Club
65%
Jonathan Coe's widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes,…
A Fraction of the Whole (shortlisted for Booker'08)
97%
At the heart of this sprawling, dizzying debut from a quirky, assured Australian writer are two…
Officers and Gentlemen
88%
Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of…
The Ballad of Peckham Rye
97%
A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the…
Couples
89%
An intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New…
Marry Me
88%
Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She’s married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally…
Forbidden Colours
76%
Written when Mishima was only twentysix, «Forbidden Colors» is a depiction of a male homosexual…
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
65%
In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories
88%
Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars…
Boy and Going Solo
56%
Roald Dahl's life was as bizarre, exciting and funny as the stories he wrote, and here is the whole…
The Luxe
77%
Imagine, if you will, New York City, 1899... Society's elite: the glamour, the grandeur, the…
Demons
57%
Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the…
Myth Alliances
69%
When the sheepish Wuhses are taken advantage of by the overbearing Pervects, Skeeve teams up with…
Myth-Gotten Gains
56%
Someone is collecting animated treasures and keeping them from their heroic destinies. Reunited…