He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and acros...
"I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!'From the supreme artist of the short story, three disturbing tales of superna...
Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebr...
This colourful activity book, featuring six friendly animal students in Ladybird Class, helps children develop their maths skills.Perfect for fun at-home learning, this activity book wi...
The true horror of the trenches is brought to life in this selection of poetry from the front line.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black ...
Where do animals live? Do all animals have homes? Find out all about nests, shells and coral reefs.Do You Know? is a series of levelled non-fiction books featuring video content, projec...
The biography of the brutal, crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula, who tried to appoint his own horse consul.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birth...
There are lots of cars. Some are big, some are small, some are old, some are fast! Which cars do you like? Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, mode...
The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th b...
Recommended for children aged 5+, Do You Know? is a series of levelled non-fiction books featuring video content, project work and critical-thinking activities. Each book asks a range of BIG questi...
Recommended for children aged 5+, Do You Know? is a series of levelled non-fiction books featuring video content, project work and critical-thinking activities. Each book asks a range of BIG ...
This colourful activity book, featuring six friendly animal students in Ladybird Class, helps children learn how to spell.Perfect for fun at-home learning, this activity book will help ...
Sadder than salad.From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the jo...
'Oh, good God,' he kept saying with great relish. 'Good God...''Gooseberries' is accompanied here by 'The Kiss' and 'The Two Volodyas' - three exquisite depictions of love and loss in nineteenth-ce...
Help children learn key handwriting skills with the friendly students of Ladybird Class! Join Zara Penguin, Tao Meerkat, Ali Lion, Olivia Crocodile, Noah Panda and Nia Hedgehog as they have fun wri...
This collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, including both old favourites and lesser-known pieces, shows him at his dazzling best.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black C...
The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the BeagleIntroducing Little Black Cl...
"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..."Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he...