When Mary Lennox is sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody says is the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It is true, too. Mary is pale, spoilt and quite contra...więcej »
‘Astonishing . . . Genius . . . A masterpiece’ EMMA WATSONChristopher Reese has been through a lot by the age of seven. He will go through much more before he turns eight.więcej »
I expect you have often thought about what you would do if you were granted three wishes. The five children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother - had often talked about it but when...więcej »
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom’Sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare’s ...więcej »
Black Beauty is the prettiest young horse in the meadows, and spends many happy days under the apple trees with his friends Ginger and Merrylegs. But this easy life comes to an end when Beauty is s...więcej »
A fascinating insight from the official Python archives!This book delves into the official archives and recounts the history of the men who changed the face of comedy. The story is told...więcej »
A gorgeous, tender modern classic about the complexities of love, with an introduction from the Booker-winning author John BanvilleStefan Valeriu, a young Romanian student, holidays alo...więcej »
'A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero' - David WalliamsOne child a week is fifty-two a year.Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear.BEWARE.więcej »
Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a wor...więcej »
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today we have only a limi...więcej »
Live life in a bubble? Or risk everything for love?Maddy is allergic to the world. She hasn't left her house in seventeen years.Olly is the boy next door. He's determined to find a way ...więcej »
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also ...więcej »
The news from the north is grim.An army is massing under the new king of Feal. They head towards Darien - city of the Twelve families -demanding allegiance, or war.Tel...więcej »
It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is nothing wrong with her. As he sets out to find her, he finds himself in the corridors of...więcej »
'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls. At first repulsed by the strange ph...więcej »
A race-against-time thriller, as one man must find the origin and cure for a new killer virus that has brought the world to its knees.At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven peo...więcej »
In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege.Pupils and teachers barricade themselves into classrooms, the library, the theatre. The h...więcej »
I love you . . . but what if I can't love your life?Ava is sick of online dating. She's always trusted her own instincts over an algorithm, anyway, and she wants a break from it all. So...więcej »
'A brilliant display of pyrotechnics, a compelling tour de force ... by a master jeweller of polished prose' The New York TimesA private detective is hired to find a missing person, but...więcej »
One sunny spring morning in the 1970s, an unlikely Englishman set out on a pilgrimage that would take him across the entire length of Japan. Travelling only along small back roads, Alan Booth trave...więcej »