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The Second World — £9.99
At the end of the Cold War, we found ourselves living in a world with one superpower, the United States. Now, at the start of the twenty-first century, Parag Khanna argues powerfully that the moment of American supremacy is over, brought about by the increasing influence of what he terms the Second World: Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South America, the Middle East and East Asia. Travelling from Azerbaijan to Venezuela, China's hinterlands to Gaddafi's Libya, Parag Khanna explores these countries...

The Wind in the Willows — £9.78
When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of doing his spring-cleaning, he discovers a whole new world. As well as adventures on the river and in the Wild Wood, there are high jinks on the open road with that reckless ruffian, Mr Toad of Toad Hall. Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad become the firmest of friends, but after Toad's latest escapade, can they join together and beat the wretched weasels once and for all?

Empire — £7.99
This astoundingly successful, superbly reviewed book vividly recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire. Ferguson's most revolutionary and popular work, Empire is a major reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the world's greatest modernising forces. It shows on a vast canvas how the British Empire in the 19th Century spearheaded real globalisation with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers, missionaries and millions of settlers.

Love in the Time of Cholera — £8.99
He found the corpse covered with a blanket on the campaign cot where he had always slept, and beside it was a stool with the developing tray he had used to vaporize the poison. On the floor, tied to a leg of the cot, lay the body of a black Great Dan with a snow-white chest, and next to him were the crutches. At one window the splendour of dawn was just beginning to illuminate the stifling, crowded room that served as both bedroom and laboratory, but there was enough light for him to recognize at...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — £12.99
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now in a new deluxe edition with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk and cover by Joe Sacco, here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half...

The Grapes of Wrath — £8.99
The people came out of their houses and smelled the hot stinging air and covered their noses form it. And the children came out of the houses, but they did not run or shout as they would have done after a rain. Men stood by their fences and looked at the ruined corn, drying fast now, only a little green showing through the film of dust. The men were silent and they did not move often. And the women came out of the houses to stand beside their men – to feel whether this time the men would break. The...

Scotland — £9.99
From the Georgian splendours of Glasgow and Edinburgh to the remote beauty of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland is home to some of our most beloved Special Places. We’ve found something to delight everybody – secluded crofts, grand old castles, tranquil cottages and heavenly hotels – all tastes and budgets are catered for. Discover a castle clinging precipitously to granite cliffs on the Ayrshire coast – a simple cottage on North Uist, an award winning ‘see through house’ on the Isle of Skye. You...

Greece — £11.99
The entries in this guide are special in many different ways: we choose places for the warmth of their welcome, their style - whether grand or not, their value for money and their wonderful locations. You'll find a gorgeous family villa hidden on its very own Cycladic beach and a historic apartment tucked away in an island's Venetian citadel. But it's not just about the islands. The Peloponnese has Greece's highest concentration of ancient sites, its emptiest beaches - and some fantastic places to...

Out of Africa — £9.99
From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. Out of Africa is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman and of a way of life that has vanished for ever.

Number 5 — £8.99
A petite woman in a white cloche hat was backing out the door of number - 2, 4, 6-8, an end-terrace across the way, dipping her arms as she eased the rear wheels of a two-tone pram off the doorstep, dipping again for the front wheels. Her coat was royal blue, flaring from two outsize buttons between and below the shoulder blades. A cement mixer blocked the driveway to her left. She looked over her right shoulder at the narrow gap between the end of her front wall and the start of number 6's. I was...

King Lear — £2.50
An ageing king makes a capricious decision to divide his realm among his three daughters according to the love they express for him. When the youngest daughter refuses to take part in this charade, she is banished, leaving the king dependent on her manipulative and untrustworthy sisters. In the scheming and recriminations that follow, not only does the king's own sanity crumble, but the stability of the realm itself is also threatened.

Turkey — £11.99
An increasing number of Britons have begun to discover this fascinating country beyond the beaches and the shish-kebab. Sawday's new guide to Turkey lists nearly 200 places from classy caves to Armenian mansions, from log cabins to designer chic hotels. The entries in this guide are special in many different ways: we choose places for the warmth of their welcome, their style - whether grand or not - and look for good value for money. Every property in the book has been inspected. Clear symbols...

A Man on the Moon — £10.99
"For many years Penguin Books has been at the forefront of publishing classic literature and bringing it to a wider public. Penguin has often used Magnum photographs on their covers, ensuring that the same audience gets to see great images from the archive. Magnum is proud to continue this tradition with this latest set of books, where Penguin's choice of images range from the quirky to the classic; these are photographs that truly represents the history and great diversity of Magnum Photos."

A Room with a View — £8.99
Forster's brilliant social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose 'undeveloped heart' is awakened by her experiences in Italy and by her encounter with the unconventional George Emerson. Lucy finds herself torn between un-English passion and stifling Victorian propriety, personified in her pretentious fiancé Cecil Vyse and her dismal cousin Charlotte, until she learns to follow the...

Portugal — £11.99
The Portuguese are as intensely proud of their rich history as they are of their football and their stunning scenery: terraced vineyards, hill forts, cork, fig and olive groves and the deep blue, beautiful Atlantic. This guide leads you to guesthouses, hotels and self-catering properties from the simple, cheap and charming to the grandly historic – pousadas, castles, forts and convents - and designer-decadent new kids on the block. You’ll come across rustic houses with funky & fresh interiors, antique...

In the Night Garden: Little Library - Penguin Books — £4.99
Meet your favourite characters from In the Night Garden. Six little board books in their very own slipcase make for a great introduction to the magical world of the Night Garden.

Africa — £15.99
The roots of our ancestry lie in Africa. John Reader's brilliant, panoramic survey traces the development of this huge continent from its earliest geological formation and the beginnings of life, through to the civil war and genocide that mark it today. He explores the complex, widely differing societies from the great inland estuaries of the Niger and the Okavango, to the rain forests of the Equator and the deserts of the North, the devastating impact of European exploitation on those societies...

The English Year — £9.99
A peculiar custom, which prevailed at Kingston-upon-Thames church in Surrey until the early nineteenth century, involved the cracking of nuts during the service on the Sunday before St Michael’s Day. This was not confined to children but was indulged in by all ages, and according to Edward Brayley’s Topographical History of Surrey (1850), ‘the cracking noise was often so powerful, that the minister was obliged to suspend his reading, or discourse, until greater quietness was obtained.’ It was thought...

The Enormous Crocodile — £6.99
The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little boys and girls. But the other animals have had enough of his cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all!

A Perfect Match — £6.99
I imagined James holding Svetlana in his arms as we burst through the arrivals gate in the airport. Our families, gathered to greet us, were holding 'Welcome home, Svetlana' banners and big red 'Congratulations!' balloons. I saw them 'oohing' and 'aahing' when they first met our beautiful, smiling daughter. James and I beamed at each other, proud parents at last. Fast-forwarding twenty years, I saw myself cheering as Svetlana won the best actress award at the Oscars for her portrayal of a deaf musician...

First Light — £8.99
'An extraordinary, deeply moving and astonishingly evocative story. Reading it, you feel you are in the Spitfire with him, at 20,000 feet, chased by a German Heinkel, with your ammunition gone' INDEPENDENT Two months before the outbreak of WWII, seventeen year old Geoffrey Wellum left school to become a fighter pilot with the RAF. He made it through basic training to become the youngest Spitfire pilot in the prestigious 92 Squadron. Thrust into combat almost immediately, Wellum found himselfflying...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich — £7.99
This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a piece of string or a single match in a world where survival is all. Here safety, warmth and food are the first objectives. Reading it, you enter a world of incarceration, brutality, hard manual labour and freezing cold...

The Beach House — £7.99
It is, she thinks wryly, one of the beautiful things about growing old, so necessary when there is so much else that is painful. At sixty-five she still feels thirty, and on occasion, twenty, but she has long ago left behind the insecurities she had at twenty and thirty, those niggling fears: that her beauty wasn't enough, not enough for the Powell family; that she had somehow managed to trick Everett Powell into marrying her; that once her looks started to fade, they would all realize she wasn't...

The Prime Minister — £14.99
The declaration of war on the committing of the Armed Forces to conflict, except in self-defence. The signing or ratification of treaties. The recognition of foreign governments. The assenting to legislation or directives issued by the European Union. The appointment of bishops, judges, peers, ministers, European commissioners, ambassadors, chairs of public bodies. The establishment of royal commissions. The issuing of orders in council. The exercise of executive powers not conferred by statute...

Cause for Alarm — £8.99
Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fiancée points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in Italy, he jumps at the chance. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth about his predecessor's departure and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realizes that it's not so simple just to do the job he's paid for - not in fascist...

Going Solo — £6.99
The second part of Roald Dahl's remarkable life story, following on from Boy , tells of his time working in Africa and his wartime exploits. This edition has a great new cover with illustrations by Quentin Blake, and some new facts about Roald Dahl and his world.

The Supernaturalist — £6.99
Fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When a rare chance to get away comes, he grabs it, but the attempt goes fatally wrong. He can feel his life force ebbing away, sucked out of him by a strange blue Parasite … until a wisecracking gang of kids burst in, blast the creature and save him. They are the Supernaturalists, dedicated to ridding the world of these life-sucking blue parasites. When they realise that Cosmo has the ability...

Hotel World — £7.99
Here's the story; it starts at the end. It was the height of the summer when I fell; the leaves were on the trees. Now it's the deep of winter (the leaves fell off long ago) and this is it, my last night, and tonight what I want more than anything in the world is to have a stone in my shoe. To be walking along the pavement here outside a hotel and to feel a stone rattling about in my shoe as I walk, a small sharp stone, so that it jags into different parts of the sole and hurts just enough to be...

Three Cups of Tea — £8.99
In 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called Greg Mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. Moved by the inhabitants’ kindness, he promised to return and build a school. Three Cups of Tea is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome.

The Art of War - Sun Tzu - Penguin Books — £4.99
Offering ancient wisdom on how to use skill, cunning, tactics and discipline to outwit your opponent, this bestselling 2000-year-old military manual is still worshipped by soldiers on the battlefield and managers in the boardroom as the ultimate guide to winning.

The Twits — £5.99
Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve! This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.

Amazon — £9.99
Bruce Parry endeared himself to the nation with his courage and good humour in testing circumstances when living with indigenous peoples in Tribe . Now he undertakes another epic journey, tracing the 6,000km route of the Amazon river from source to ocean. Along the way Bruce meets the people who live and work there. The truths he discovers are often frightening, but always eye-opening, reminding us that the Amazon's fate touches us all.

The Great Stink — £8.99
Where the floor of the tunnel levelled out once more William paused, holding his lantern up to the wall. The water tugged impatiently at his boots. Where the light caught it, the masonry bulged with overlapping wads of fungi. They sprouted fatly from between the spongy bricks, their fleshy undersides bloated and blind, quilting the holes that pocked the walls. They were the closest that the tunnels came to plant life but William could find no affection for them. He ducked further, pulling in his...

The Rough Guide to Bolivia — £15.99
An updated history section includes the civil disturbances of recent years, giving you a sound context in which to really get a feel for the country. There is expanded coverage on trekking and Isla del Sol, as well as candid reviews of all the best places to stay and eat, from jungle lodges to colonial mansions.

Encore Provence — £8.99
There are, of course, some gastronomic treats to be had on the way, including a feast at a converted petrol station and a rendezvous with the famous Marseillaise bouillabaisse. But when lunch is over there are still more moments to relish: learning the secrets of perfume-blending at a school for 'noses', the story of a crime passionnel perpetrated by a jealous husband on an oversexed, cycling-short wearing butcher, a connoisseur of funerals, a grower of black tomatoes, and the simple pleasure of...

South From Granada — £9.99
Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War. Here he portrays the landscapes, festivals and folk-lore of the Sierra Nevada, the rivalries, romances and courtship rituals, village customs, superstitions and characters. Fascinating details emerge, from cheap brothels to archaeological remains, along with visits from...

Quantum of Solace (A format) — £6.99
From a View to a Kill. For Your Eyes Only. Quantum of Solace. Risico. The Hildebrand Rarity. Octopussy. The Living Daylights. The Property of a Lady. 007 in New York.

Live Bait — £6.99
Lily took a breath, then sat on her heels—a young posture for such an old woman, but her knees were still good, still strong and flexible. She couldn't get Morey’s eyes to close all the way, and with them open only a slit, he looked sinister. It was the first thing that had frightened Lily in a very long time. She wouldn't look at them as she pushed back the darkened silver hair the rain had plastered to his skull.

The General in His Labyrinth — £7.99
Wending his way down the Magdalena River towards the Caribbean with his faithful servant, José Palacios, Bolívar’s journey is hindered by his own reluctance to let his power go. Despite the assassination attempts, jeering and humiliation he encounters, his fear of fading into the shadows keeps him clinging to the man he used to be.

The Birthday Present — £6.99
I never met Hebe. I never even saw her. Like the rest of the world, I saw her picture in the papers after the accident, a pretty blonde, almost beautiful, with the looks of a model. And, also like the rest of the world, I confuse her with the other pretty blonde, the one the men thought they were taking when they took her, or the police or the press thought they were taking when they took her. The mystery of which girl was the intended victim was never publicly solved. How angry it made Ivor that...

Letter from America — £9.99
When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which began in 1946 and continued uninterrupted every week until early 2004, kept the world in touch with what was happening in Cooke's wry, liberal and humane style.

Jemima J — £7.99
Because, tough as it is to admit to a total stranger, I, Jemima Jones, eat a lot. I catch the glances, the glares of disapproval on the occasions I eat out in public, and I tried my damnedest to ignore them. Should someone, some 'friend' trying to be caring and sharing, question me gently, I'll tell them I have a thyroid problem, or a gland problem, and occasionally I'll tack on the fact that I have a super-slow metabolism as well. Just so there's no doubt, just so people don't think the only...

The Revelation of St John the Divine and the Book of Job - Penguin Books — £3.99
A profound consolation to early believers, these two books from the Bible deeply influenced the rise of the Christian church: the apocalyptic Revelation portraying the religion's ultimate triumph over its foes and The Book of Job depicting one man's faith in the face of incredible adversity.

A Shropshire Lad — £4.99
Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it. English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of...

The Rough Guide to Chicago — £10.99
The guide includes a new 'author pick' section of the city's top hotels and restaurants to suit every taste and budget plus, lively reviews of hundreds of shops, clubs and live-music venues. There are new chapters on Rogers Park, the Art Institute of Chicago and a re-worked list of art galleries. With maps and plans for the entire city this guidebook promises to help you to get the most from your trip.

Three Tales from the Arabian Nights — £9.99
I shuddered at the thought and made up my mind to save myself from this fate by paying over all the money that I had got from my flax. Before I realized what was happening, however, I heard a herald proclaim: ‘Muslims, the truce between us is at an end. Those of you who are here have a week to finish your business, after which you must leave for your own lands.’ This was the end of my affair, and I set about collecting the cash for the flax that I had sold on deferred terms, and bartering what remained...

The Early Stories — £18.99
Then there, what to buy? There are not so many people here. Grown-ups carrying babies mosey glassily on the straw walks. All the booth people, not really gypsies, stare at him, and beckon weakly. It hurts him to ignore the man with the three old softballs, and the old cripple at the merry-go-round, and the fat lady with her plaster Marys, and the skeleton suspended behind a fountain of popcorn. He feels his walking past them as pain. He wishes there were more people here; he feels a fool. All of...

Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - Penguin Books — £5.99
Jude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking ‘New Woman’. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Jude the Obscure...

Devil's Brood — £10.99
The Devil's Brood has at its heart the implosion of a family, a story of devastating betrayal as King Henry II's three eldest sons and his wife Eleanor enter into a rebellion against him, aligning themselves with his most bitter enemy, Louis of France. But ist is also the story of a great king whose brilliance forged an empire but whose blind spots led him to make the most serious misjudgement of his life.

Bergdorf Blondes — £6.99
Stephen Hawking.’ Listen, someone that brainy would never do something as crazy as spending $325 on a pair of Chloé jeans, but I just can't help it, like most New York girls. The reason I can just about afford the $325 jeans is because the aforementioned career consists of writing articles for a fashion magazine, which say that spending $325 on a pair of jeans will make you deliriously happy. (I've tried all the other jeans - Rogan, Seven, Earl, Juicy, Blue Cult - but I always come back to the classic...

Numbers in the Dark — £9.99
Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside their mud huts; a computer programmer considering the possible sequence of a series of brutal acts; and dialogues with Henry...

The Man Who Fell to Earth - Penguin Books — £8.99
Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced Anthean technology, which he uses to amass a fortune. He begins to build a spaceship to help the last 300 Antheans migrate to Earth. Meanwhile, Nathan Bryce...

Cheating at Canasta — £16.99
A husband sits in Harry's Bar in Venice, thinking of his wife — lost to him now — whose plea has brought him back to one of their favourite haunts. On another table, a young couple quarrel. Cheating at Canasta is the title story of William Trevor's new collection, his first since the highly acclaimed A Bit on the Side (2004), and its themes of missed opportunities, the inevitability of change and the powerful but fragmentary quality of our memories are entirely characteristic of his unparalleled...

The Terror of St Trinian's and Other Drawings — £9.99
Ronald Searle takes us back to the world of the Gothic Public School in The Terror of St Trinian's. In this gloriously anarchic academy for young ladies we witness shootings, knifings, torture and witchcraft, as well as many maidenly arts. The subject of many evergreen films, St Trinian's is synonymous with the sort of outrageous behaviour that would make a convict blench.

Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane - Penguin Books — £4.99
Join Sarah Jane on an exciting adventure investigating mysterious happenings with the help of Maria, Luke, Clyde and of course 'Mr Smith'. Based on an episode of Sarah Jane Adventures this fantastic novel has colour inserts showing scenes from the BBC series.

Reefer Madness — £8.99
In the state of Indiana, a person convicted of armed robbery will serve about six years in prison; someone convicted of rape will serve about eight; and a convicted murderer can expect to spend twenty-five years behind bars. These figures are actually higher than the national average: eleven years and four months in prison is the typical punishment for an American found guilty of murder. The prison terms given by Indiana judges tend to be long, but with good behaviour, an inmate will serve no more...

On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin - Penguin Books — £9.99
The Origin of Species is one of the most important and influential books of its time and remains one of the most significant contributions to philosophical and scientific thought. The theories Darwin sets out here had an immediate and profound impact on the literature and philosophical thought of his contemporaries, and continue to provoke thought and debate today. Written for the general public of the 1850's, The Origin of Species laid out an evolutionary view of the world which challenged contemporary...

Moby-Dick - Herman Melville - Penguin Books — £7.99
So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound...

Knock Down — £17.99
Steeplechase jockeys, like all other professional sportsmen, have to find a second career for themselves as the years go by. Jonah Dereham, retiring from the saddle at thirty-two, chooses to become a bloodstock agent and spends his life travelling round racehorse sales, finding and bidding for the sort of horse each of his clients wants. Jonah wants only to mind his own business, but several disturbing incidents force him to realise that someone is out to ruin him, and to survive he has to find the...

My Penguin Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - Penguin Books — £5.00
Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole and tumbles into Wonderland: a topsy-turvy world of riddles and nonsense where animals answer back, a baby turns into a pig, time stands still at a disorderly tea party, croquet is played with hedgehogs and flamingos, and the Mock Turtle and Gryphon dance the Lobster Quadrille. In a land in which nothing is as it seems and cakes, potions and mushrooms can make her shrink to ten inches or grow to the size of a house, will she...

In The Night Garden: The Lost Blanket - Penguin Books — £7.99
This bestselling novelty board book now has sturdier, thicker board, but still has exciting lift-the-flaps and tactiles to delight little fans as they take a journey through the Night Garden. Plenty for young ones to enjoy and all their favourite characters to spot.

How I Live Now — £6.99
It would be much easier to tell this story if it were all about a chaste and perfect love between Two Children Against the World at an Extreme Time in History. But let's face it, that would be crap. Daisy is sent from New York to England to spend a summer with cousins she has never met. They are Isaac, Edmond, Osbert and Piper. And two dogs and a goat. She's never met anyone quite like them before - and, as a dreamy English summer progresses, Daisy finds herself caught in a timeless bubble. It seems...

House of Orphans — £7.99
I was always influenced by language. I loved rhymes and poems, stories and songs, anything that had a rhythm - a skipping game in the playground like 'Cowboy Joe went to Mexico', or an action rhyme like 'The big ship sails on the alley-alley-oh' where we all had to dip our heads in the deep blue sea at the end. I loved the things people said. I remember a primary teacher who used to scream, 'Are you deaf, or daft, or both?' at pupils who were out of order. I shrank from what she said but something...

A Dictionary of the English Language: an Anthology — £12.99
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words, been so thorough in its definitions, or illustrated usage by quoting from Shakespeare and other great writers. Johnson's was the dictionary used by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the Brontës and the Brownings, Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. This new edition, edited by David Crystal,...

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Tales — £8.99
The bare facts about Stoker’s life have provided rich pickings for literary detective work, and critics have tended to read his works as much for the potential biographical insight they can offer as for the stories they tell. The most manifestly persistent of these critical interpretations has been speculation about his sexual proclivities. Claims have been equally stringently made for Stoker’s rampant heterosexual carnality, his closet homosexuality, his anal fixations, oral fixations, Oedipus complex...

Dark Star Safari — £9.99
To skip ahead, I am writing this a year later, just back from Africa, having taken my long safari. I was mistaken in so much - delayed, shot at, howled at, and robbed. No massacres or earthquakes, but terrific heat and the roads were terrible, the trains were derelict, forget the telephones. Exasperated white farmers said, 'It all went tits up!' Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it -hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can't tell...

Bonjour Tristesse AND A Certain Smile — £9.99
Published when she was only nineteen, Françoise Sagan’s astonishing first novel Bonjour Tristesse became an instant bestseller. It tells the story of Cécile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry – with devastating consequences. In A Certain Smile Dominique, a young woman bored with her lover, begins an encounter with an older man that unfolds in unexpected and troubling ways. These two acerbically witty...

A Rough Guide First-Time Africa — £10.99
The title shares informed advice on buying the best ticket, getting visas and vaccinations, planning your itinerary, budgeting and packing wisely. Practical tips on coping with your first night in Africa, plus the low-down on getting around, finding accommodation, staying healthy and travelling safely. Comprehensive profiles of 41 countries, including details of the main attractions and when to go.

Head Over Heels in the Dales - Gervase Phinn - Penguin Books — £8.99
This year, however, he has a few important things on his mind besides the schools. His impending marriage to Christine Bentley, the prettiest headteacher for miles around, finding themselves somewhere to live in the idyllic Yorkshire Dales, and the chance of a promotion all generate their fair share of excitement, aided and abetted as usual by his colleagues in the office. But it’s in the classroom where Gervase faces his greatest challenge, keeping a straight face as teachers and children alike...

101 Crazy Ways to Die — £4.99
To put your irrational fears to bed, we've tracked down the odds of your succumbing to everything from a sneezing fit to a spider bite - and a whole lot worse in between!

The Atlantis Code — £6.99
The 20,000 year-old relic is inscribed with what appears to be the long lost language of Atlantis. Only one man would seem to be able to decode its meaning - the world's foremost linguist, Dr Thomas Lourdes - but only if he can stay alive long enough…

The Rough Guide to the Philippines — £15.99
This revised 2nd edition includes detailed and opinionated listings and essential information on where to stay, eat, drink, dance, surf, trek, kayak and sail plus a brand-new diving section packed with practical advice on world-class dive sites and operators. You’ll find improved in-depth coverage of major destinations such as Boracay and emerging destinations such as Palawan. The guide features informative background on Filipino history, culture, society, music and politics, and comes complete with...

The Rough Guide to Korea — £12.99
Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Korea, the ultimate guide to this stunning region. Covering both North & South Korea, the full-colour section introduces the countries highlights, from the shrines, temples and palaces of Seoul to the broad stretches of paddy field in the Ch'ungch'ong-do province. With informed accounts and unparalleled coverage, clue-up on all the top sights from the small coastal towns and remote forested mountains of Eastern Korea to the rich rice fields of Korea...

Call of the Wild - August - Penguin Books — £25.00
9. By entering this competition each entrant confirms that his/her entry is their wholly-owned creation and to the extent that such entry makes use of any third party materials that these have been fully cleared unless they are no longer protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights. Entrants will keep the Promoter harmless from any claims in relation to their entry that the entry infringes the personal or proprietary right of any other person. By submitting an entry, each entrant...

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Penguin Books — £5.00
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden...

Warrior of Rome I: Fire in the East — £6.99
The speaker’s accent pointed to the slums of the Subura in the teeming valley between two of the seven hills of eternal Rome. His origins may have been low but, as a frumentarius, he and his two colleagues were among the most feared men in the Roman Empire, the imperium. As frumentarii their title should have implied that they had something to do with grain distribution or army rations. No one fell for that. It was like calling the wild Black Sea ‘the hospitable sea’, or the daemons of retribution...

Charlie and Lola: Look After Your Planet — £7.99
Lola is clearing out some of her old things because she does not want her bedroom to ever get as messy and pongy as Marv's older brother Marty's bedroom – yuk! Charlie persuades Lola that instead of throwing her things away, she should recycle them. "Recycle it? What is it?" asks Lola.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Ian Fleming - Penguin Books — £7.99
From the moment he first meets Teresa di Vicenzo – a reckless playgirl with a love of fast cars and danger – Bond is fascinated. She also leads him to new information on one of the most dangerous criminals in the world, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. In his Alpine mountain base, Blofeld is developing weapons that could threaten the whole world. Only 007 – with the help of someone who can handle herself at speed – can stop the evil genius. Filled with ski chases, schnapps and snow-bound lairs, On Her Majesty...

The Secret Fire — £6.99
Robert stood, hands on his hips, staring down at the most recent batch of papers and photographs he had been examining. It had been his obsessive project, as Kat had called it, part of the recovery process Horace had devised for him after 2004: track down and gather together all the research papers and writings Adam had accumulated over his years in London, Miami, Havana and elsewhere, as well as in New York. See what he had learned about himself, and about the Enemy. It was a way of making peace...

The New Penguin Atlas of Recent History — £10.99
This new and completely updated edition of the highly successful Penguin Atlas of Recent History is the ideal introduction to the major events and developments in Europe from 1815 to 2000. With over fifty colour maps complemented by an accessible text, and entirely new sections taking us from 1980 to the dawn of the millennium, it covers a wide range of issues from population growth to the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. This is a companion volume to The New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History ,...

The First Rumpole Omnibus - John Mortimer - Penguin Books — £10.99
Who rose to enduring fame on Blood and Typewriters, told the pregnant Portia of the Chambers it would come out in the end, advised Guthrie Featherstone, Q.C., to adopt a more judicial attitude, returned in the tender gloaming of each evening-via Pommeroy's and a glass of Chateau Fleet Street- to She Who Must Be Obeyed? The answer is Horace Rumpole whose legal triumphs, plundering stories into the Oxford Book of English Verse and less-than-salubrious...

Cook Yourself Thin Quick and Easy - Penguin Books — £14.99
Following the amazing success of the first book (most popular debut diet of 2007) comes this brand-new collection of over 120 recipes, plus fantastic tips and real-life success stories. By popular demand there is an entire chapter devoted to chicken, more tempting desserts, family favourites (spag bol, chilli con carne) and lots of mouthwatering meals in minutes for the time poor among us.

Got You Back — £6.99
Every year since he had made a big fuss on their anniversary, surprising her with cleverly chosen gifts; a pair of heavily decorated designer Wellingtons the first year, a reference to the weather on their wedding day but also, as it turned out, something she now treasured for a different reason – a reminder of their last weekend spent stomping around in the mud at Glastonbury before she found out she was pregnant with Finn; a night away at a B and B complete with his parents’ offer of baby sitting...

Doctor Who: Doctor Who Files The Ood - Penguin Books — £5.99
Find out all about the Ood in this exciting fact file. Packed with facts about them and their home planet, the Ood-Sphere, quizzes to test your knowledge and a brand new story, Disappearing Act.

Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian - Penguin Books — £10.99
Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of WW2. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley - but his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back in London...

Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan - Marco Polo - Penguin Books — £4.99
My first thought when reading this book was that it's not really an idea as such, it's a description. My second thought was that it would've been nice to have some background to give the book context. My third thought was 'Duh! You have the internet and google skillz. Go find the background for yourself!' Which I did :-) Marco Polo, a Venetian, traveled to China in 1271 and returned back to Venice in 1291. I have vague recollections of reading a book about him, which argued that he never actually...

Great Ideas: Civilization and its Discontents - Sigmund Freud - Penguin Books — £4.99
Freud's epoch-making insights revolutionized our perception of the self, and founded the theories of psychoanalysis.

Amy's Honeymoon — £6.99
‘He’ll be cutting it very fine,’ she said severely, then seeing Amy’s tense face she softened, like butter in the sun. ‘Ah, bless. Don’t worry. He’ll make it.’ She tapped something into her computer, looked up and winked. ‘Bet he’ll be chuffed when he finds out he’s flying club class.’ The printer whirred and Amy’s boarding pass chugged out. The woman grinned as she scribbled on a card. ‘And here’s a pass to the lounge, so you can wait for him in style. Have a glass of champagne – though you probably...

Rough Guide Map New Zealand — £5.99
Reliable and user-friendly, The Rough Guide Map New Zealand boasts an A-Z street finder index with telephone numbers and prices for a number of restaurants. New Zealand's shopping streets, pedestrian zones and major buildings are all edged in different colours to make them easier to find. The useful 'Time Map' charts the opening days and times of all the county's sights and the map's detailed transport information will help you to make the most of New Zealand's train, bus, and cycle routes.

Diamonds are Forever - Ian Fleming - Penguin Books — £7.99
Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind of girl you could get into a lot of trouble with - if you wanted. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa to the States via London. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice-maiden herself . . .

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fixing Your PC — £15.99
Have you ever turned on your computer—and nothing happened? Ever clicked your mouse or typed a command and your computer just beeped at you? Have you ever gone to a Web site that wasn’t there—or have an email returned to sender? Ever received an error message? Don’t panic—help is at hand!

Young Bond: By Royal Command - Charlie Higson - Penguin Books — £12.99
'I don''t see how this is for 8 year olds. They don''t know about communism and history of the 1930''s! I would say 14+, cause I''m in ninth grade and I''m learning about these rebels now. This book is superbly reading, with a 30 minute gun battle in the end, and the character of Bond has real depth in this.'

To Lose a Battle — £14.99
In 1940, the German army fought and won an extraordinary battle with France in six weeks of lightning warfare. With the subtlety and compulsion of a novel, Horne’s narrative shifts from minor battlefield incidents to high military and political decisions, stepping far beyond the confines of military history to form a major contribution to our understanding of the crises of the Franco-German rivalry.

Heart of Betrayal — £6.99
When I first started writing, that was my overriding goal, and it’s only become more important to me since then. As far as I’m concerned, the best novels are the ones that you have to set down halfway through just so you can say to yourself, “I can’t believe that just happened.” Those are the books that tend to stay with me – and with others, I think – but sadly, they’re hard to find. I can only think of a few off the top of my head, Kyle Mills’ Sphere of Influence being one of them. Hannibal probably...

Sword of God - Chris Kuzneski - Penguin Books — £6.99
I attended Indiana High School, where I was voted Class Clown of my senior class, and anchored the line of a team that won back-to-back championships. I continued my football career at the University of Pittsburgh – playing with the future NFL stars Tony Siragusa, Jeff Christy, Mark Stepnoski, Craig ‘Ironhead’ Heyward, Marc Spindler and many others – while working on my BA in writing. Unfortunately a freak foot injury ended my athletic career. (That, and a severe lack of talent.)

Top Gear: Stupidly Hard Quiz Book v.2 — £4.99
Top Gear books for younger fans of the TV programme, not suitable for adults. How well did you fare on the first Top Gear quiz book? Here's your chance to show just how much you know.

Polar Shift - Clive Cussler - Penguin Books — £7.99
Sixty years ago, an eccentric Hungarian genius discovered how to artificially trigger such a shift, but then his work disappeared, or so it was thought. Now, the charismatic leader of an anti-globalization group plans to use it to give the world's industrialized nations a small jolt, before reversing the shift back again. The only problem is, it can't be reversed. Once it starts, there is nothing anyone can do. Austin, Zavala and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team have certainly faced...

In the Night Garden Story Treasury: 8 Favourite Stories - Penguin Books — £12.99
This delightful keepsake book features favourite stories from In the Night Garden. The perfect keepsake for little Igglepiggle fans, it also comes in a luxurious slipcase and has a lovely ribbon bookmark.

Dogs and Demons — £11.99
How did one of the world's greatest and most ancient civilizations reach the state of economic, cultural and environmental decline that defines it today? Why, through decades of spectacular economic progress, did nobody comment on the terrifying price paid by ordinary Japanese? Now economically devastated, shunned by foreign tourists and regularly voted by visiting businessmen as one of the world's least appetizing destinations, Japan must now wake up to the 'state-sponsored vandalism' that has...

Casino Royale - Ian Fleming - Penguin Books — £7.99
Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome; chillingly ruthless and very deadly. This, the first of Fleming's tales of agent 007, finds Bond on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply 'The Cypher' - by ruining him at the Baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to 'retire' him. It seems that lady luck is taken with James - The Cypher has hit a losing streak. But some people just refuse to play by the rules and Bond's attraction to a beautiful...