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Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh''s stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War…

Serpentine - Philip Pullman

A brand new short story set in the world of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust by master storyteller, Philip Pullman.Serpentine is a perfect gift for every Pullman fan, new…

The Second Sleep - Robert Harris

***OUT NOW, PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS***WHAT IF YOUR FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST?''One word: wonderful. Two words: compulsive reading. Three words: buy it…

The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis

The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited…

History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides

'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and…

The Ugly Five - Julia Donaldsonová

From the bestselling author and illustrator duo of TheGruffalo!Who's that singing on the savannah?It's the top-five ugly animalsin Africa!The wildebeest, warthog, vulture, hyena…

Twinkly Twinkly Christmas Tree - Sam Taplin

Children - and adults - will love the twinkly lights that light up as you turn the pages and follow the story in this book. Mouse has no Christmas lights, so she sets out with her…

Ten Minutes to Bed: Little Monster - Rhiannon Fielding

From the team behind Ten Minutes to Bed Little Unicorn; a little monster who would rather do anything but sleep. . .This is the perfect bedtime story for every little monster's…

Shark in the Dark - Nick Sharratt

Timothy Pope is looking out into the night with his telescope. Is that really a shark he can see? Turn the page and find out...Children will delight in peeping through the die-cut…

Shark in the Park on a Windy Day! - Nick Sharratt

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the park . . .Timothy Pope is blown this way and that way in the windy park -- but among the whistling wind and blustering brollies…

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

Told in a simple mythical style, the story of Siddhartha is an inspirational classic by Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.Part of the Macmillan Collector's…

The Troll - Julia Donaldsonová

A laugh-out-loud pirate adventure from the stellar picture-book partnership of Julia Donaldson and David Roberts.The Troll longs for a juicy goat to eat - but he's stuck with…

Lolita - Vladimír Nabokov

'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee.…

The Prince - Niccoló Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics.As a diplomat in…

The Art of War - Sun-c'

Still a source of inspiration for soldiers on the battlefield and managers in the boardroom 2000 years after it was written, Sun-Tzu's The Art of War is the most influential book…