Penguin

Cocaine is big business and getting bigger. Governments spend millions on an unwinnable war against it, yet it's now the drug of choice in the West. How did the cocaine economy get so huge? Who keeps it running behind the scenes? In "The Candy Machine", Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and...

'She's mad. There has to be something wrong with her. She's insane.' Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She skives off school, cheeks the teachers, and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling the most awful lies. None of this matters to Natalie. Natalie finds Tulip exciting, and at first she doesn't care that other people are so...

A superb work of adventure ang imagination, "The Call of the Wild " tells the compelling story of Buck, part St Bernard and part Scotch shepherd dog Betrayed and sold to Northern traders, Buck is forced to pull a sledge through the frozen Yukon. He and the other dogs on the team are brutalized and beaten until they are almost dead, but Buck is...

The next book in the "Cal Leandros" series that began with "Nightlife", "Madhouse" is a clever and hugely entertaining urban fantasy in the vein of Jim Butcher by "New York Times" bestselling author, Rob Thurman. 'My brother had spent a lifetime - mine, at least - telling me that I was normal, that I wasn't a monster. With his help, I'd finally...

Following a fall in the Shanghai market, Chinese Cinderella is whisked away to Grandma Wu's house to recover. As she lapses in and out of consciousness, she is haunted by vivid dreams that seem strange - yet somehow familiar - to her. A tale of slavery and friendship, wealth, poverty and an arranged marriage begins, as Chinese Cinderella recalls a...

Bestselling author Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and how philosophy can console us. Now he turns his attention to one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishings. He asks: What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas...