Since no one could get enough of the beautiful "Penguin English Library" books, created by our award-winning designer Coralie Bickford-Smith, we've made some beautiful and sumptuous notebooks that you won't be able to go without...This pack of two stylish, sumptuously soft notebooks makes the perfec[...]

This is an indispensable, fully up-to-date phrasebook for travellers in both Portugal and Brazil, in a pocket-size format and beautiful cover design. This newly revised and updated Portuguese Phrase Book contains a wealth of useful words and phrases for travellers in both Portugal and Brazil. The bo[...]

'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS 'There is a lot of northern European melancholy in the collection, though often tinged with wry humour...an excelle[...]

'A bold anthology ... alive with provocations and insights' John Carey, Sunday Times'The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. I've had very little practice in this sort of thing, you see'The British short story tradition is probably the richest, most varied and historically ext[...]

'Eclectic, entertaining ... almost all British, if not human, life is here' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'Mind-stretching, heart-breaking, beautifully-crafted fiction' Claire Harman, Evening Standard'She would tear the house down - shatter the windows, slash the furniture, flood the baths, fire the curta[...]

"The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings" brings together the experience and enthusiasm of four of classical music's greatest experts, Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton and Paul Czajkowski, to create an essential guide to the best recordings. Downloads, CDs and DVD mean [...]

Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those [...]

An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the many modes in which short fiction contributed to [...]

In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war and famine. This makes its current position as arguably th[...]

The Penguin Dictionary of Science covers all the important topics in this key subject area including chemistry, physics, molecular biology, biochemistry, human anatomy, mathematics, astronomy and computing. Superbly comprehensive and accessible, this newly updated dictionary is the ideal reference t[...]

A major new title in the Penguin Monarchs series In his fascinating new book in the Penguin Monarchs series, Richard Abels examines the long and troubled reign of Aethelred II the 'Unraed', the 'Ill-Advised'. It is characteristic of Aethelred's reign that its greatest surviving work of literature, [...]

Give your mind a New Year workout with 365 brand new Sudoku puzzles to take you through 2015. Ranging from easy to extra-challenging to extreme evil, there's a game for every day, with instructions and solutions. So turbocharge your brain power, sharpen your logic and knuckle down to those 9x9s. It'[...]