Percy, Annabeth and their friends have survived countless deadly quests and now they must face their greatest challenge yet…stopping the earth mother, and primordial goddess,...View more

Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre influenced Baudelaire and French symbolism, Freudian analysis, the detective novel and the Hollywood film. His psychologically profound stories,...View more

A captivating novella about long-term relationships, getting older and how to live a good life, by the great Simone de Beauvoir. Nicole and André, a retired...View more

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books ‘It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and...View more

Why has violence played such a significant role in human history? Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent memory, war...View more

But as the tides of modernity and change sweep through Europe, their once-stable world begins to crumble, along with the tenets on which the Buddenbrooks...View more

With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the same father...View more

The Arabian Nights - stories told by Queen Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights, to beguile the Sultan into deferring her execution - first began...View more

Prince Nekhludoff recognizes the prostitute Lyubasha, accused in a murder trial, as the peasant Katyusha Maslova, whom he had seduced ten years earlier, causing her...View more

A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the...View more

'A work of art...altogether a joyous and lovely thing' New York Times Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a...View more

Orhan Pamuk is one of Turkey's premier novelists and My Name Is Red, when published in the original Turkish in 1998, became the fastest-selling book in...View more