Shelley Et Al : Frankenstein/Dracula/Jekyll & Hyde (Sc)

Bram Stoker

Three horror classicsawith an introduction by Stephen King Some of literatureas most popular and enduring horror icons in one indispensable tome....

Boomerang: The Biggest Bust

Michael Lewis

Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi, and hairdressing is classified as arduous for tax avoidance purposes. In Iceland, Range Rovers frequently explode as owners collect the insurance to p...

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ...reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one ...

Adolescent Country: A Lowy Institue Paper - Penguin Specials

Peter Hartcher

The great crises that threaten Australia's national prosperity come from abroad. So do the grandest opportunities. But in Australian politics the big matters are commonly crowded out by the small. International policy is used for domestic point-scoring. Leaders are criticised for travelling beyond the w...

The Suffragettes : Little Black Classic

Various

'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.' A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism and changed the world. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ...

The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris

Marc Petitjean; Adriana Hunter (Translator)

In 1939, after her divorce from Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo travelled from the US to France - the beginning of a unique period of her life. Now, for the first time, this previously overlooked part of her story is brought to light in exquisite detail. Marc Petitjean takes the reader to Paris, where Kahlo s...

The Witch in the Well

Camilla Bruce

The unnerving, skin-pricklingly disconcerting yet irresistibly readable new novel - a story of obsession, possession and a rivalry to the death - from the acclaimed author of You Let Me In and Triflers Need Not Apply.Over a hundred years ago, the citizens of F- did something rather bad. And local school...