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Pip doesn´t expect much from life... His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip´s narrow existence is blown ap...

The Penguin Pocket Spelling Dictionary is indispensable for anyone who wishes to check spelling quickly and easily. It shows how to spell virtually all the words you are likely to encounter on a daily...

This is a major revision and expansion of what has long been recognized as a basic reference in its field. Besides updating the existing text, the authors have broadened the book by including many new...

The Penguin Dictionary of Biology defines some 6,000 terms relating to this rich, complex, and constantly expanding subject—from amino acids, bacteria, and the cell cycle to X-ray diffraction, Ychromo...

The New Penguin Dictionary of Business is the ideal handbook for every-one with an interest in the world of business, whether for study or at work, or who needs to get to grips with the mass of jargon...

The New Penguin Dictionary Engineering is the essential work of reference for enyone involved in this rapidly changing field - not just civil enginerrts, but all construction professionals, including ...

Whether readers are students of economics or simply want to follow the economic discussions in the media today, this wide-ranging and accessible dictionary is the perfect source for explanations of a ...

The Penguin Dictionary of International Relations holds the key to understanding the trends and events that have influenced international relations over the last decade. This completely up-to-date ref...

Now in its fifth edition, The New Penguin Guide to the Law is the most up-to-date, wide-ranging reference book of its kind. Written by a team of legal experts, it covers all aspects of the law that di...

Clear and concise definitions of more than 4,500 terms and concepts and many new entries on up-to-the-minute topics make this newly updated dictionary the ideal reference guide to a quickly evolving s...

This authoritative and wide-ranging reference work has been thoroughly revised to include the latest definitions used in psychology, psychiatry, and related fields. It now features 17,000 entries alon...

The Penguin Dictionary of Statistics is an extremely useful and comprehensive guide to the subject. An ideal reference book for A-level mathematics students and undergraduates, this dictionary is also...

In this age of rapid communication, we all need to write fluent and accurate English, but getting it right can seem daunting. This reassuring guide explains how you can increase your word power and ma...

If you ever feel that your spelling lets you down, this practical and easy-to-use book offers expert advice on how to get it spot on every time. It explains the basic principles ans rules, and guides ...

Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in ...

What have the invention of the wheel, Pompei, the Wall Streets Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in commom? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper? What can Catherine the Grea...

1896: Four Englishmen flee for their lives across the merciless Kalahari Desert carrying a stolen fortune in raw diamonds and hunted by a fierce African tribe. The thieves manage to reach the waiting ...

He was never married, never loved and never gone to bed with a woman he didn´t pay. But on finding a young girl naked and asleep on the brothel owner´s ned, a passion is ignited in his heart - and he ...

When newlywed Angle Vicario and Bayardo San Román are left to their wedding night, Bayardo discovers that his new wife is no virgin. Disgusted, he returns Angela to her family home the very night, whe...

Only moments later, César is led away by police as they clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed. But César is no the only man to be riled by the rumours being sperad in his Colombian hom...

While her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Eréndira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and peacocj to feed. The never-ending chores leave the young girl so exhausted that she...

In his younger days, Simón Bolívar swept the Spanish back to Europe, liberating South America with his youthful vitality. But lonely, embittered and sickly at the age of forty-six, his power has dwomd...

The Penguin Readers are graded at seven levels of difficulty from easystarts to level 6 (Advanced). They fall into three sub-categories (Contemporary, Classics and Originals) ithin the one series, mak...

When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes brings together twelve of the master detective`s most celebrated cases.

The Diamond as big as the Ritz and Other Stories - The stories capture a glittering whirl of dancing, laughter and champagne, and the gods that are worshipped are glamour, wealth and social status. Th...

This title is part of an inexpensive range of classics in the "Penguin Popular Classics" series.

When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father´s throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encou...

Julius Caesar - Following a successful campaign in Spain, Julius Caeser returns to Rome and is offered the crown. Fearing for the Republic, Cassius heads a conspiracy to murder Caesar, enlisting the n...

Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object o...

Moving from make-believe worlds to curiosity and descriptions of simple pleasures, these poems capture a child´s wonder, imagination and fascination with everyday things.

It´s the swinging Sixties and a flood of narcotics is pouring into Britain. Sinister industrialist Dr Julius Gorner is identified as the source and James Bond is dispatched to investigate. The trail t...

Riotous world tours. Drug-induced rampages. One hundred millions albums sold. In his sixth major rock biography, Stephen Davis details the riveting story of the last great rock band. Watch You Bleed d...

When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall. He...

OLD ENEMIES AWAKEN AS CAMP HALF-BLOOD´S NEW ARRIVALS PREPARE FOR WAR When Jason, Piper and Leo crash land at Camp Half-Blood, they have no idea what to expect. Apparently this is the only safe place f...

Mouse is lonely so he searches for a friend among the other animals, until at last another mouse appears.

‘Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft’ Mark Twain’s tale of a boy’s picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a ...

Exuberantly coloured artwork and favourite animals make this rhythmic story the perfect introduction to looking and learning about colours. Each spread leads seamlessly into the next and young childre...

‘Home looks nice. Allus does though, don’t it? Perfick’ And so the Larkins – Pop, Ma, Mariette, Zinnia, Petunia, Primrose, Victoria and Montgomery – return from an outing for fish and chips and ice cr...

Assassin´s Creed: Forsaken is the latest thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the phenomenally successful game series. ´I am an expert swordsman. And I am skilled in the business of deat...

A delightful new sticker activity book featuring everybody´s favourite pig, Peppa, and her friends. It´s time to find the hat! Peppa and George and their friends wear lots of different hats for differ...

Part of the My First Storybook range, Daddy Pig’s Fun Run is a colourful and engaging board book based on the award-winning Nick Jr. television series. The captivating stories and familiar characters ...

When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to...

´Shall I compare thee to a summer´s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate . . .´ Shakespeare´s 154 sonnets contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, dealing with ete...

Sensitively edited and with a connecting commentary by editor, Mirjam Pressler, the abridged edition of The Diary of Anne Frank gives younger readers their first introduction to the extraordinary diar...

What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human.

From the legendary Paul McCartney - an action-packed picture-book adventure celebrating the fun grandparents and grandchildren can have when their imaginations run wild. See the compass needle spin -...

From Penguin´s The Originals collection, The Outsiders is an outstanding story of teenage rebellion, written when the author was only 17. __________ Teenagers in a small Oklahoma town have split int...

´Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past´ Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the pa...

From Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong´o comes a powerful, moving picture book about colourism, self-esteem and learning that true beauty comes from within. Sulwe´s skin is the colour of mid...

Based on the Oscar winning short film! It´s up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this story of self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters. Zuri knows her h...

Meg the witch and Mog her cat go off to a wild Hallowe´en party with all the other witches. The spell they cast goes off with a BANG.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2016 / SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE. 2016 Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the author of Swimming Home and The Man Who Saw...

Peep through holes with Lucy to discover all the coloured insects in the garden in this radiant picture book with a pop-up surprise! In this inventive peep-through-the-holes picture book from an awar...

Step inside the home of Holly Mac and meet her successful, distinguished husband Marcus, notice how beautiful her home is and how gorgeous her children Daisy and Oliver are. You might say that they ar...

At a café table in Lahore, a Pakistani man converses with a stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting. Among the brightest and best of his grad...

Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story of the young blind girl, her cousin´s granddaughte...

For seventeen years, the Cambridgeshire hamlet of Judes Ferry has lain abandoned, requisitioned by the Government for military training. In its thousand-year-old history, it had been famous for one th...

Juan Cabrillo and his expert team on the Oregon are used to working dirty, dangerous jobs. While thwarting terrorist missiles, Cabrillo and the crew stumble on pirates in the seas of China, men who ar...

A husband. A wife. A mistress. And the ultimate plan for revenge...The husband James never intended to lead a double life - with a wife in London and a mistress in the country, it´s exhausting. But th...

A young woman who disappeared into the inky black night... A retired school teacher stabbed to death in broad daylight.... Two women butchered in a small-town beauty parlour.... three baffling murder ...

When firms are on the brink of failure, only turnaround management can restore performance and profitability. The key is to provide stability and create cash (and a breathing space) for building long-...

´We have no choice of what colour we´re born or who our parents are or whether we´re rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we´re here.´ The Mississippi of th...

One of the most extraordinary literary works of the twentieth century, Lady Chatterley´s Lover was banned in England and the United States after its initial publication in 1928. The unexpurgated editi...

Em ´Alongamento para 50+´, o Dr. Karl Knopf apresenta um programa com todos os exercícios necessários para alongar a musculatura. Este livro, embora destinado a adultos de mais de 50 anos, pode ser co...

How cool is 36-year-old Will Lightman? Sub-zero, according to the questionnaire in his favorite men´s magazine. Not only does he own more than five hip-hop albums (five points), he´s also slept with a...

Presenting a tour of English from its mongrel origins to its status as the world´s most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelli...

The script for the film ´An Education´, the story of the bizarre relationship between 1960s teenager Jenny (played by Carey Mulligan) and older man David (Peter Sarsgaard), after she accepts a lift on...

This dazzling overview of a turbulent century explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage ´European civil war´ and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealt...

´The New Penguin Dictionary of Music´ is the essential A-Z of some 1,000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a huge range of composers, and examines such key to...

´Maestros, masterpieces and madness´ is a sparkling exposé of the strange truth and sheer brilliance behind the classical music recording industry. Leading music critic Norman Lebrecht charts its rise...

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. This is the total original text and was transcribed by the Englishman John Burton. It flows with the hint of that era somehow and Burton puts some jocular points in at th...

Royal Ascot’s first day, and bookmaker Ned Talbot watches helplessly as a string of favourites come in. With the punters totting up their winnings, he counts his losses. Then an old man steps forward ...

Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into a new year and a new school where undersize weaklings share the corridors with kids who are taller, meaner and already shaving. Desperate to prove his new found ...

The Mississippi of the 1930s is a hard place for a black child to grow up in and Cassie finds it difficult to understand why the farm means so much to her father. But she begins to reach a painful und...

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Brazil will lead you straight to the best attractions the country has to offer. Whether you´re partying in Rio or exploring the colonial architecture in the northeast cities...

Lauren Child´s beautiful and artistic retelling of The Princess and the Pea. The tale of a prince, a princess, perfect politeness, pages of love and a peculiarly hard pea. This utterly original interp...

When Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit, she had little idea how popular this story and the 22 which followed it would immediately become. Each of the 23 Tales has reprinted...