Both Sides Of The Fence 2 - Prijzen

La fille qui lisait dans le metro

Juliette prend le métro tous les jours à la même heure. La ligne 6, c'est chez elle. Elle aime y observer ceux qui lisent : la vieille dame, le collectionneur d'éditions rares, la jeune fille qui pleu...

Life Death Prizes

Shortlisted for the 2012 COSTA Novel Award Billy's Mum is dead. He knows - because he reads about it in magazines - that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than...

Post Office Girl

It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's...

The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

In this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the The Machine of Understanding Other People, the story of a Chicago...

Oil!

The classic novel that inspired the Acadamy award-winning film, There Will Be Blood. Penguin Books is proud to now be the sole publisher of Oil!, the classic 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair. After writin...

The Mad Toy

The first novel by one of the greatest writers of Latin American literature, The Mad Toy is a semi-autobiographical story reflecting the energy and chaos of the early twentieth century in Buenos Aires...

Hall Of Secrets

In Cate Campbell's sumptuously detailed, page-turning series set in 1920s Seattle, the once-secure lifestyle of the wealthy Benedict family--and their household staff--must contend with the radical, r...

Rose O' the River

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria was the longest reigning monarch in British history. In this concise biography, Lady Longford, long recognised as an authority on the subject, gives a full account of Queen Victoria's l...

Crisis Girls Vol. 2

Tombori Maple is a little girl with a big responsibility. When zombies rise and monsters stomp the streets, this little powerhouse rises to the occasion, using her own ghoulish gifts to protect the wo...

Jacques Tati

The full story of one of France's greatest cinema legends, a clown whose film-making innovation was to turn everyday life into an art form. Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, unmistakable with his pipe...

Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures

Postcolonial Studies is more often found looking back at the past, but in this brand new book, Bill Ashcroft looks to the future and the irrepressible demands of utopia. The concept of utopia - whethe...