Penguin

Scarlett's not red like a sunset, she's red with rage. She cannot believe her mum's sunk so low as to pack her off to Ireland to stay with the dad who left them. Surely he's the reason for everything going wrong, her never being able to stay in a school, rules always just, somehow, seeming to get broken? Ha! They won't get round her so easily. But...

Antony Beevor's impressive military history of the D-Day landings and battle for Normandy now in a trade paperback edition. Making use of overlooked and new material, Beevor's gripping narrative brings to life both the wider strategy and the human experience of war. 'Impeccable, splendid, thoroughly researched and gripping. Beevor is a master of...

lsquo;Sublimity is the echo of a noble mindrsquo; The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. In Ion, Plato examines the god-like power of poets to evoke...

This title is a classic of its kind, a dazzling parody of the earthy, melodramatic novels of the period. Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn her own living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to go and live with her relatives the Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm. What relatives, though:...

A Christmas classic for more than 150 years, "A Christmas Carol" tells the story of the cantankerous Ebenezer Scrooge, his underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit, and Bob's frail son Tiny Tim, one of Dickens' most enduring and popular characters. When Scrooge, a miserly money-changer, is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future on one cold...

Chaucer's tales of his motley band of travellers on their pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket have become legendary and still represent, in John Dryden's words,"God's plenty". "The Canterbury Tales", compiled in the late fourteenth century, is an incisive portrait, infused with Chaucer's wry wit and vibrant, poetical language. He evokes a...