Penguin

Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block? For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life...

Will is thirty-six but acts like a teenager. He reads the right magazines, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also discovered a great way to score...

'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong-and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell in...

As with all Clive Cussler's dazzling Dirk Pitt novels, critics said Treasure of Khan 'amazes, informs and entertains' (Publishers Weekly), 'the action zipping along until a...

In death, they are purified. Holding his victims under water, he washes away their sins as they struggle for their last breath. Then he stakes their bodies to the ground,...

Throughout the Second World War, thousands found themselves cut off behind the lines in Nazi-occupied Europe - soldiers were left stranded on beaches after the chaotic...

Somerset, 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother's adultery. .. Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearby...

Nick Hornby returns to his roots - music and messy relationships - in this funny and touching new novel which thoughtfully and sympathetically looks at how lives can be wasted...

Orphan sahib and bazaar-boy Kim lives by his wits. His chameleon's talent for disguise draws him into British intelligence in India, a mission to thwart foreign agents on the...

Best friends since they were teenagers in the days of legwarmers, pink stretch jeans and Duran Duran. Now in their early thirties, they're living in London, but so far only...

Discover heart-wrenching stories from the spirit world, in Life After Death by Sally Morgan. How does it feel to speak to dead people? What happens when spirits need...

For Kate Greene, nothing was as important as the happiness and well-being of her two little boys, Reef and Finn, and her loving husband, Singe. Even when she fell very ill, they...