LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne.Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their exist...
Naomi Klein, internationally acclaimed journalist, activist and bestselling author, shows us how we got to this surreal and dangerous place, how to stop it getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep ...
Set off from London and travel across the globe. Then try to make it back! In Lonely Planet Kids' Around the World in 50 Ways, kids choose their favourite routes and transportation, from tuk-tuks a...
It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose...
My animal book is a hands-on, action-packed title to share with young children. The starting point is the child and the questions they ask about animals. First, there's a big surprise: a human bein...
"The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the youth of the richest, most powerful nation on earth was trying to...
Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod to Zuleika Dobson, via The Devil Rides Out and Middlemarch, literary connoisseur and sleuth John Sutherland offers his very personal guide to the most rewarding...
Four friends. Five Letters. One Secret. A scandalous breakthrough novel from Nicola Moriarty that will leave you asking, how well do I really know my friends? Joni, Trina, Deb and Eden. Best friend...
Louise Glück sows the fertile subject ground of marital discord in harvesting this crop of gems. The poems zing back and forth as the verses alternate between man and woman. "Flaubert had...
When a high-level mole with power to rewrite world order infiltrates the CIA, Rapp must uncover a threat like no other.After a blackout swept the nation, America is resuming life as nor...
Seven days of sin. Seven days of secrets. Seven days to steal her sister's life.Beth has always been the golden girl, leaving her identical twin, Alvie, in her shadow. She has everythin...
Penguin Picks are stories you'll want to read again and again. Beautifully and stylishly designed by a modern artist, they are not only stories you'll keep coming back to but also books whose looks...
22 seconds... until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge - or her life.SFPD Sergeant Boxer has guns on her mind.There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing ...
A formidable free-style book that isn’t straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fier...
Few attend Mrs Alice Drablow’s funeral, and not one blood relative amongst them. There are undertakers with shovels, of course, a local official who would rather be anywhere else, and one Mr ...
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the qu...
A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash.She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young ...
Meet the children from one school, and their teachers, parents and carers. They have different kinds of families, likes and dislikes, cultures, ethnicities, abilities and disabilities... and LOTS i...
A gentle picture book that examines the issues of selfishness, aggression and kindness in a reassuring way - perfect for young children who struggle with aggressive behaviour. The story offers a wa...