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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Popular Penguins
William Shakespeare's sonnets are a beautiful expression of a range of human emotions - from love to grief, anger, jealousy and lust. Including the instantly recognisable 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' as well as a range of other equally moving works, this compilation brings together the compl...
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 4: Sodom and Gomorrah
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In "Sodom and Gomorrah", Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century but also exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and ...
On Liberty
'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign'. To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay "On Liberty" is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who or...
Are You My Mother?
Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home", her remarkable graphic memoir about her father, established itself immediately as a classic of the genre, being chosen as "Time" Magazine's Best Book of the Year for 2006, while "The Times" called it 'a profound and important book'. Now Bechdel has written another memoir, eq...
Eroticism
A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential study he links the underlying sexual basis of religion to ...
The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
In this "landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself" (The New York Times Book Review) social psychologist Jonathan Haidtchallenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike. Drawing on his twenty-five years of ...
The Bush
While most of us live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, our sense of what an Australian is, or should be, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke a livi...
My Brother is a Big Fat Liar (Middle School #3)
James Patterson; Lisa Papademetriou
Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School- The Worst Years of My Lifestarring Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca.Georgia Khatchadorian plans to excel at Hills Village Middle School in all the places her troublemaking brother failed...
Rafe's Aussie Adventure (Middle School)
James Patterson's bestselling Middle School series heads Down Under!Life is finally starting to look up for everyone's favourite troublemaker, Rafe Khatchadorian. Since his stint at The Program, a kind of prison camp in the woods for 'wayward students', he's managed to stay enrolled at Hills Valley Midd...
Go Set a Watchman: Harper Lee's sensational lost novel
From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout? - returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the ...
Falling Awake
Winner of the Costa Poetry Award - Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward Prize"These lyrics...illustrate poetry's unique ability to shock readers into a renewed awareness of the world." --Washington Post Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, "give s] us the sensation of l...
The Course of Love: An unforgettable story of love and marriage from the author of bestselling novel Essays in Love
A brilliant new novel about love and marriage in the modern world - from the author the bestselling novel Essays in Love. Modern love is never easy. Society is obsessed with stories of romance, but what comes after happily ever after? This is a love story with a difference. From dating to marriage, from...
Secret Diary & Growing Pains of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new double edition, featuring the first two books in the hilarious collection and see life through the spectacles of a misunderstood boy growing up in the early 1980s. Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at t...
Am I Being Too Subtle?
The traits that make Sam Zell one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs also make him one of the most surprising, enigmatic, and entertaining mavericks in American business. Self-made billionaire Sam Zell consistently sees what others don't. From finding a market for overpriced Playboy magazine...
Peppa Pig: Peppa's Egg-cellent Easter Sticker Activity Book
Peppa loves Easter! Join Peppa, George and all their friends in this sticker activity book, packed with Easter fun.With lots of puzzles and activities, this sticker activity book will keep all little Peppa fans busy. Also look out for the new Easter Egg shapedboard book, Peppa Pig- Easter Egg 9780241371...
Church of the Open Sky
What makes for a surfing life? With a blaze of groundbreaking performances and a swag of titles claimed from all over the world to his name, Australian world champion surfer Nat Young might know. His seventieth birthday inspired some reflection on exactly that, and on the waves and characters that have ...
Falastin: A Cookbook
FALASTIN is a love letter to Palestine, the land and its people; an evocative collection of over 110 unforgettable recipes and stories from the co-authors of Jerusalem and Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, and Ottolenghi SIMPLE. Travelling through Bethlehem, East Jerusalem, Nablus, Haifa, Akka, Nazareth, Galil...
The Interior Design Handbook
'Furnish for how you would like to live, not for what you want people to think.'When interior designer Frida Ramstedt moved from a characterful old apartment to a functional new build, she started to think about design in a new way. Rather than relying on high ceilings and architectural features, she ha...
Knock Knock
**THE SMASH-HIT SCANDI THRILLER FROM THE PUBLISHER OF JO NESBO**Set over three explosive days, this is compulsive, heart-pounding storytelling that will keep you on the edge of your seat.He thought she was safe. Then the past came knocking.Seventeen years ago, Inspector Ewert Grens was called to the sce...
The Fear
Hot on the heels of the New York Times bestsellers The Twin and The Lake, the undisputed queen of YA thrillers is back. Don't be afraid. Be terrified. It's just a stupid meme that's going around their small fishing town in the dead of winter-people reposting and sharing their biggest fear. But when her ...
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