September 2026

John C. Mather / The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe

In 1992 members of a NASA team revealed to the world findings made by a remarkable satellite called the Cosmic Background Explorer, or COBE. Written from the first-person perspective of John Mather,...

Suchen Christine Lim / The River's Song

The River's Song is a moving, lyrical novel which deftly weaves together the themes of love, South-East Asian music and culture, and the social and political consequences of urban modernisation...

Ian Fleming / Dr No

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Greg Bear / Star Wars: Rogue Planet

Rogue Planet is an unforgettable journey stretching from the farthest reaches of known space to the battlefield of a young boy's heart, where a secret struggle is being waged that will decide the...

Epictetus / Whatever is Rational is Tolerable

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I must die. But must I die bawling?' What does it mean to live a virtuous life? How can we rise above pain and anguish? In these teachings...

Paddy Woodworth / Dirty War, Clean Hands

Spain's transition from the Franco dictatorship to a democratic state has been widely regarded as exemplary. However, this powerfully written book reveals that as Spain's first post-transition...

Mark Dawson / The Case of the Dastardly Dognappers

The fourth in a series of gripping adventure stories, perfect for fans of Enid Blyton. Things in Southwold get off to a bad start! Max has to do extra lessons while Charlie has been roped into...

Winslow Don / City of Dreams

Hot on the heels of the "superb" (Stephen King) New York Times bestseller City on Fire comes the explosive second novel in an epic crime trilogy from #1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow...

Marcus Tanner / Croatia - A Nation Forged in War

In this book an eyewitness to the breakup of Yugoslavia provides the first full and impartial account of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Croatia from its medieval origins to today's tentative peace...

Tina Santi Flaherty / What Jackie Taught Us: Lessons from the Remarkable Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

She was a woman of confidence, focus, and passion, and it made her one of the world's greatest sources of inspiration and influence. She drew on a remarkable wealth of self-knowledge and a sense of...

Rosanna Ley / From Venice with Love

With her marriage in danger of falling apart, Joanna returns home to the beautiful but dilapidated Mulberry Farm Cottage in rural Dorset, where her sister Harriet is struggling to keep the farm...

Jeremy Rifkin / The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Work-Force And the Dawn of the Post-Market Era

Unemployment is at its highest level since the Great Depression. Technologies, which have brought vast improvements in productivity, have slashed the numbers employed in manufacturing and...

Geoffrey Roberts / Victory at Stalingrad: The Battle That Changed History

Victory at Stalingrad tells the gripping strategic and military story of that battle. The hard-won Soviet victory prevented Hitler from waging the Second World War for another ten years and set the...

Rupert Smith / The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World

Why do we try to use military force to solve our political problems? And why, when our forces win the military battles does this still fail to solve those problems? It is because the force lacks...

Griffiths Trevor / Comedians

Comedians by Trevor Griffiths is one of the most important plays of the 1970s, a savagely funny investigation into the politics of comedy. Comedy is medicine. Not coloured sweeties to rot their teeth...

Martin Millar / The Goddess of Buttercups and Daisies

Set in ancient Athens, The Goddess of Buttercups and Daisie s is the new book from the celebrated author of The Good Fairies of New York and the Kalix Werewolf series. This is Martin Millar at his...

Enid Blyton / Famous Five Colour Short Stories: Message in a Bottle

Introduce The Famous Five to younger readers with these BRAND-NEW mystery stories for children aged five and up! In this full-colour, newly created adventure story, the children and Timmy find a...

May Gibbs / Snugglepot and Cuddlepie

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William Shakespeare / Julius Caesar: Third Series

This edition of one of Shakespeare's best known and most frequently performed plays argues for Julius Caesar as a new kind of political play, a radical departure from contemporary practice, combining...

T. C Boyle / The Inner Circle

In 1939, on the campus of Indiana University, a revolution has begun. The stir is caused by Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who is determined to take sex out of the bedroom. John Milk, a freshman, is...

Nick Warburton / Oxford Reading Tree: Level 11: TreeTops Stories: Hard To Please

This book is part of TreeTops Fiction, a structured reading programme providing juniors with stories they will love to read. Offering chapter books with full-colour illustrations, written by...

Andrew Marvell / Oxford Student Texts: Marvell: Selected Poems

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Elmer Andrews / Icon Critical Guide - the Poetry of Seamus Heaney

A title in the ICON CRITICAL GUIDES series exploring the literary criticism relating to authors and texts studied most frequently on university courses. Each guide assembles extracts from essays and...

Stephen Coote / T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land

A central work of modernism, "The Waste Land" evokes a world of moral, sexual and spiritual decay. In it Eliot gives voice to the deep intellectual uncertainty that had existed from the 1870s and to...

Susan Hill / The Beacon

Colin. May. Frank. Berenice. The Prime children grew up in a bleak country farm house called The Beacon. Colin and Berenice married locally. May went to university in London, but came home within a...

Rev. W. Awdry / Thomas & Friends: Kevin

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E.Clerihew Bentley / The Complete Clerihews of E. Clerihews Bentley

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Perkins Gilman / The Yellow Wallpaper And Selected Writings

A collection of writings from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the most important American feminist of the early twentieth century. Includes the chilling and hugely influential The Yellow Wallpaper, which...

Lynne Truss / Talk to the Hand- The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door

An evaluation of the way discourteous behavior has become commonplace and even applauded in today's society is a humorous call to arms that challenges ill manners and the practices that support them...

MARSHA NORMAN / 'night, Mother: A Play

By one of America''s most talented playwrights, Marsha Norman''s '' night, Mother won the Dramatists Guild''s prestigious Hull-Warriner Award, four Tony nominations, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize,...

Klein G Weissmann / All But My Life

The story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. It takes the reader on a terrifying journey from the author's comfortable home in the Polish town of Bielitz to her...

Maxine Hong Kingston / The Woman Warrior.

'A brilliant memoir...it is about being Chinese in the way A Portrait of the Artist is about being Irish; it is an investigation of soul, not landscape, its sources are dream and memory, myth and...

Chris Baldick / The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

Part 1 Beginnings: "Sir Bertrand - A Fragment" (1773), Anna Laetitia Aiken "The Poisoner of Montremos" (1791), Richard Cumberland "The Friar's Tale" (1792), Anonymous "Raymond - A Fragment (1799),...

Dorothy Allison / Bastard Out of Carolina: by Dorothy Allison

'About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for' The New York Times Book Review 'For anyone who has ever felt the contempt of a self-righteous world, this book will resonate within you like a...

Tennessee Williams / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays

Tennesee Williams's landmark play exposes the emotional lies governing relationships in the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins. The patriarch, Big Daddy, is about to celebrate his...

Collectif / Collins Pocket English Thesaurus

This thesaurus combines the text of the "Collins Gem Thesaurus" with a larger format. The text consists of 9250 headwords, each provided with an up-to-date range of over 120,000 synonyms that reflect...

Gayl Jones / Corregidora

The blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora, the 19th-century slavemaster who fathered both her grandmother and mother. Made sterile in a violent fight with her husband Mutt, Ursa...

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Poems

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Elizabeth Waite / Skinny Lizzie and Nippy

This volume contains two stories from South London - "Skinny Lizzie" and "Nippy". Elizabeth Waite is the author of several other novels including "Cockney Waif", "Second Chance", "Third Time Lucky"...

Martin McDonagh / McDonagh Plays: 1: The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull in Connemara; The Lonesome West

Martin McDonagh's plays have been produced in Galway, Dublin, London and New York. They have created excitement and have won numerous awards. In individual editions the plays have been among...

Ursula Markham / Miscarriage: Your Questions Answered

This text looks at the subject of miscarriage, providing clear information and practical advice to help women understand and deal with a variety of emotions which confront them at such times,...

Emily Joy / Green Oranges on Lion Mountain

Emily Joy puts on her rose-tinted specs, leaves behind her comfortable middle class life as a doctor in York and heads off for two years voluntary work at a remote hospital in Sierra Leone. Emily...

Richard Sheridan / Oxford Student Texts: Sheridan: The Rivals

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Ben Jonson / Oxford Student Texts: Volpone

One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and...

Maxine Hong Kingston / Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book

One of The Atlantic 's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years - From the acclaimed author of The Woman Warrior and China Men comes a novel centered on the life of a Chinese-American hippie and...

Cristina Garcia / The Aguero Sisters.

This is the story of two sisters haunted by the deaths of their parents and separated by the Cuban revolution. Constancia Aguero lives in Miami with her husband. Her sister Reina has remained in...

Indu Balachandran / The Writers' Retreat

A hot, getaway romance on friendship, finding love and finding yourself... Amby Balan has had enough with the 9 to 5 life at Citibank. She impulsively quits her job and becomes a Twitter-writer for...

Michael Cox / The Oxford book of English ghost stories

This selection of 42 stories written between 1829 and 1968 is the first to present the full range and vitality of the English tradition of literary ghost fiction by demonstrating its historical...

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey / Joanna's Husband and David's Wife

From the very beginning Joanna and David did not have an ordinary marriage. Joanna is a well brought-up girl from a wealthy family and David an ambitious young playwright from the wrong side of the...

Peter Haining / The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

Over 25 short story masterpieces from writers such as Louis de Bernières and Ian Rankin - modern literary tales to chill the blood. This spine-chilling new anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by...

Nicholas Drake / Penguin Critical Studies: The Poetry of W.B.Yeats

This is an A-level revision guide giving a critical approach to W.B. Yeats, which is largely based on the Macmillan "W.B. Yeats' Selected Poems". The author places the poetry of W.B. Yeats in the...

Claire Brennan / Icon Critical Guide

In the ICON CRITICAL GUIDES series, a collection of literary criticism on the subject of the poetry of Sylvia Plath. It consists of extracts from critical essays, reviews and articles and it is aimed...