When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . ...
These pages include the final edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work that introduced the theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
First published in 1859, Charles Darwin's On t..
In The Origin of Species Darwin outlined his theory of evolution, which proposed that species had been evolving and differentiating over time under the influence of natural selection. On its publicati..
'STRIKING, ETHEREAL AND TRANSCENDENT' NEW YORK TIMES
'THIS BOOK WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS' BRYN GREENWOOD
No heart is safe on the savage side.
Arcade and Daffodil are ..
A New York Times Bestseller
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Gregory Bridgerton, in the final installment of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the c..
'Robert Dinsdale mixes history and mythology with great panache . . . Richly textured and with an appropriately labyrinthine plot . . . Book of the Month' - The Sunday Times
Some villains are mea..
A propulsive novel about music, coming of age and the cost of fame, for fans of Megan Abbott and Daisy Jones and the Six.
'The secrets simmer in this atmospheric, powerful novel' KATIE BISHOP
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An exciting adventure novel for contemporary kids with a fairytale setting, a daring hero and message that you're never too young and powerless to stand up to tyrants!
What happens when a group o..
A New Zealand classic, this novel is a raw and powerful portrayal of Maori in New Zealand society.
This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in N..
One night in the woods
A party gone wrong
A body discovered at sunrise
He murdered her at the folly on their wedding day, left her body for the crows. They say she haunts the woods now, a gir..
Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest captured the radical anti-establishment mood of 1960s America. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her psychiatric ward with an iron fist and a penchant for elec..
From the internationally bestselling author of The Atlas Six, One For My Enemy is a spellbinding Romeo and Juliet retelling of witches, magic and intrigue.
'Sign me up for anything she writes' - ..
Meet Betty: storyteller, feminist, eternally curious and phenomenally old. On the eve of her 100th birthday party, Betty tells us her story.
Born into poverty in pre-war London, and growing up fa..
One of the world's most famous novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, blends the natural with the supernatural in on one of the most..
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and unforgettable; they have touched the lives of readers across the..
One in Three is the coming-of-age story of James Hartman, a young doctor struggling with the demands of endless hours on call in NHS hospitals. Set in 1989 against the backdrop of the unfolding AIDS ..
'An unexpected ride! If you love suspense, mystery, and action, these books are the ones to read.' - Cosmopolitan
"We love rainy days, don't we, baby?"
Dominic King doesn't want or need anyt..
The debut novel from TikTok sensation Betty's Book List. A supermodel and a fashion photographer with a past marriage pact meet again ten years later on a photoshoot in Cinque Terre, Italy - will they..
Cole is the perfect husband; a romantic, supportive of his wife's career, keen to be a hands-on dad, not a big drinker. A good guy.
So when his wife leaves him, he's floored. She was lucky to be ..
The latest race-against-time instalment of the award-winning Grace series, now a major ITV show.
Hunting him would be murder . . .
When James Taylor arrives late for a funeral, he has to sta..
Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips's riveting mystery about an African American crime scene photographer seeking justice for a friend-perfect for fa..
'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'. Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his o..
A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals.
'Ceridwen Dovey has a rare, wild genius. The stories in Only the Astronauts are extraordinary, funny, delightful..
Ambitious and addictive, Only Time Will Tell is the first novel in Jeffrey Archer's The Clifton Chronicles, beginning the epic tale of Harry Clifton, a working-class boy from the docks of Bristol.
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After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closi..
After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closi..
DS Lucas Walker is off duty. His young half-sister Grace is visiting from Boston, and he's supposed to be spending time with her at his home in Caloodie in outback Queensland. But instead they've driv..
'An instant classic' - The Guardian
I've never eaten a person but today I might . . .
A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood si..
A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion narrates this fever dream of a novel, carrying us on a universal journey through a wondrous and menacing modern day L.A.
'A slim jewel of a novel . . ..
Winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award Winner of the 2022 E. M. Forster Award'I still sometimes wonder if one could draw a window in the wall, or in the air, and step through it together. T..
'Totally, brilliantly original.' Stephen King on HEX
'Creepy and gripping and original' - George R.R. Martin on HEX
On a foggy winter morning two children discover the impossible..
Life on our planet as you've never seen it before
Life on our planet as you've never seen it before
'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas'
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After the death of a young girl, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family...
*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024*
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There raged a thumping cosmic ballyhoo,
A manic dance - a rumpus to arouse
The universe: of Higgs and W,
Electrons, gluons, muons, Zs and taus...
For centuries, poetry and science have been im..
Virginia Woolf's pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal..
A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and enchanting novel, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. Orlando has always been an outsider...His longing for passion, adventure an..
Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen Elizabeth I's court favourites, is the object of many ladies' attentions, but after suffering heartbreak he prefers literary pursuits to entertaining any tho..
Ethiopia, 1982: After a decade of conflict, the government is determined to quash the Eritrean insurgency once and for all. As head of propaganda, it's Tsegaye's job to keep the people onside.
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This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by editors Stephen Orgel of ..
A murderer targets British historians of the First World War in this 1970s classic
Paul Mitchell spends his days researching the carnage of the First World War in the silence of the library. But ..
Four comedic spy classics repackaged for a new generation.
Four comedic spy classics repackaged for a new generation.
Critically acclaimed on their original publication and adapted to the bi..
I know my son. I know what he is and what he's not capable of.
Revelling in the triumph of a high school football win, three newly friended boys find themselves at an ill-fated party - a party wh..
Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man's acutely observed and of..
For fans of gothic fiction, a widely praised debut novel that is both a homage to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and a thrilling feminist historical adventure.
'Compelling and utterly absorbing ... ..
A gripping, twisty new thriller from the bestselling author of Our House
Charlotte and Perry have owned their clifftop holiday home in Pine Ridge for years. They've worked hard for it - why shouldn..
"A riveting and suspenseful debut. Copeland's contemporary take on the balance of power in relationships, and the desire for control, is not to be missed."-New York Times and #1 international bestsell..
A breathtaking collection of 200 photographs expertly colourised by Aotearoa New Zealand's premier colourist, Brendan Graham, with commentary from award-winning historian Jock Phillips ONZM
Our Lan..
'Liz Nugent has a gift for filling us with a terrible fascination for truly horrible people' Val McDermid
Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin.
Will, Brian and Luke g..
'Huge of heart and soaring of soul' CLAIRE KILROY'A profound love story...Like Barbara Kingsolver, Hickey captures the pulse of the living moment' COLUM McCANN1979. In the vast and often unforgiving c..