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Penguin Books
Get Set Go...on an enjoyable and engaging journey of learning. A collection of five big board books that form the building blocks of kids' foundational years of learning. Loaded with…
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Unleash your inner artist and bring the doodles to life! Get ready to experience the calming and therapeutic effects of coloring as you bring these intricate doodles to life. With…
Color Your Way to Calmness and Serenity with Stunning Mandalas! Experience the power of mandalas, the spiritual diagrams representing our universe. Immerse yourself in hours of meditative relaxation with simple…
Alex T. Smith
From the international bestselling creator of Claude, comes a brand new hero - Mr Penguin.
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The dead live again in this haunting compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls.
The walking dead from…
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Three thousand years of visions of hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America.
From the Hebrew Bible’s shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth…
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Dr Gareth Moore
A delightfully perplexing collection of challenges from throughout history, featuring some of the greatest-ever puzzle masters
From the riddles of the ancients to puzzles that perplex the greatest minds of…
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First Penguin volumeOf best Japanese haikuVivid translations
Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for…
Two thousand years of legend and lore about the menace and majesty of dragons, which have breathed fire into our imaginations from ancient Rome to Game of Thrones
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Joseph P. Laycock
Levitation. Feats of superhuman strength. Speaking in tongues. A hateful, glowing stare. Spirit possession has been documented for thousands of years and across religions and cultures, even into our time…
Real-life accounts of the world's most notorious pirates-both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond-compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of A True Account-…
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"Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmares"--
Andrew Motion, Stephen Regan
The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning and consolation
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Prof Stephen Regan, Andrew Motion
Elegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practised by the Romans…
Various
A powerful new anthology that redefines our understanding of existentialism and argues for its contemporary relevance
'We are thrown into the world at every moment, and committed within it'
In…
Anthony Thwaite
A collection of verse that contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi and Edo periods, ending with modern poetry from 1868 onwards.
Jonathan Wordsworth
The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul…
Traces Russian poetry from its Golden Age to the modern era, including work by several great poets - Georgy Ivanov and Varlam Shalamov among them - in captivating modern translations…
An anthology of classic murder mysteries - the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by the most famous practitioners
A Penguin Classic
These are not the usual suspects. When…
Hannah Dawson
A powerful new anthology of feminist voices throughout history and from around the world
The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing selects writing from across time and throughout the world, creating…
A landmark anthology, staking a new claim for Bengali literature in English
The prose short story arrived in Bengal in the wake of British colonizers, and Bengali writers quickly made…
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A revelatory and richly varied collection of Poland's greatest short stories
Witty, surprising and sparkling, this anthology is an essential exploration of Polish literature. Its thirty-nine superb stories run the…
A landmark collection of stories–nearly half appearing in English for the first time–selected and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Lahiri, who now lives in Italy and reads exclusively in Italian.n…
A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics
This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the…
A richly varied anthology of Spanish short stories, curated by celebrated translator Margaret Jull Costa
This exciting new collection celebrates the Spanish short story, from its modern origins in the…
A major celebration of the French short story across the twentieth century.
The second volume takes the reader through the tumultuous twentieth century in the company of writers including Simone…
A window onto the past, full of fire and life- two immortal traditions as the English language has never seen them before
The poets in this book are philosophers and…
A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries
The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous…
Composed between the early-agricultural ‘song culture’ of 800 BCE, when praise poems and dirges mingled in a world peopled with gods and monsters, and the time of Imperial Rome, the…
Joyce Tyldesley
The civilization we know as Ancient Egypt stretched over three thousand years. What was life like for ancient Egyptians? What were their beliefs - and how different were they from…
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Dramatic, compelling and comprehensive, this title retells the great cycle of Norse myths for the modern reader.
A revelatory and richly varied collection of Korea's greatest short stories
This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth…
An exciting new selection of poems exploring faith, the divine and doubt, written by poets across the world from antiquity to the present
Poets have always looked to the skies…
The ‘invigorating’, ‘stupendous’ and ‘exhilarating’ guide (Observer) to the beguiling form which has attracted many of our most beloved writers
‘It is hard to know how it could possibly be…
Igloo Books Ltd
Meet a fun-loving penguin and find out all about life in the snowy Antarctic.
Penguin Young Readers Licenses
Have a rememberable Easter with this Easter craft book for Bluey fans! Based on the wildly successful animated series Bluey, as seen on Disney+
Solve puzzles, play games, and make…
Learn how to be the best dad ever with the big blue guy! Based on the wildly successful animated series Bluey, as seen on Disney+
Find out how to kick…
Pope Francis will declare Mother Teresa a saint at the Vatican on September 4, making it a huge media event. The book contains some of the most wise and enlightening…
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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.
With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language practise activities…
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This charming story explores the jittery anticipation of a new baby in the family.
The I’m Ready series is a collection of fun, bright board books illustrated by the talented…
Henry Eliot
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book
For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining…
Graphic new title in this bestselling board book series
Bright art and simple, child-friendly text, plus an adorable animal finger puppet!
Giles Andreae
A feel-good, rhyming story about a little penguin who learns to overcome his fears, from the creators of international bestseller, Giraffes Can’t Dance.
John Romer,Penguin Press
A collection of funerary texts from a variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. It consists of spells, prayers and incantations, and contains the words…
DK
Polly Penguin is looking for Charlie chick. Peek under the flaps and watch the Antarctic animals pop up from the page! –Page 4 of cover.
Andrew Kelly
The little penguins come to the rich waters of the bay to hunt, but they don’t stay. There is no place to build a home. So they travel far, back…
Jane Porter
A beautifully warm and inviting picture book which offers an imaginative and playful look on the arrival of a new baby.
