Riders in the Chariot

Patrick White

This title comes with an introduction by David Malouf. Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil...

How I Live Now: Popular Penguins

Meg Rosoff

This award winning novel will soon be released as a movie starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy.   Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is sent to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. When England is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy, the cousins find themselves on their own...

The Red House

Mark Haddon

From the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and A Spot of Bother comes a superb book about family and secrets Two families. Seven days. One house. Angela and her brother Richard have spent twenty years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they b...

Stories for Nine Year Olds

Linsay Knight

Super-fun stories specially chosen for 9-year-olds! A brand-new Alice-Miranda mystery, a pop-up freak show, bravery and brothers, a budgerigar out for revenge, tall tales and hidden treasure, a prized possession gone missing, aliens at lunch, a magic paintbrush, racing frogs and a very troublesome cock...

Romance in Marseille

Claude McKay; William J. Maxwell (Introduction by, Editor); Gary Edward Holcomb (Editor, Introduction by)

The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time.A Penguin ClassicBuried in the archive for almost ninety...

Margaret Thatcher - The Authorized Biography Volume Three - Herself Alone

Charles Moore

The final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great biographical achievements of our times' (Sunday Times) A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR How did M...