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Le Grand Meaulnes is one of the great classics of French literature, a mysterious, even impressionistic tale of adolescence in the French countryside in the dying years of the 19th century. A teenager, Agustin Meaulnes, arrives in a country school, and his strong personality immediately affects...

Jack Biddlecomb has much to live up to, being as he is the eldest son of the esteemed Captain Isaac Biddlecomb, wealthy merchant captain, leading light of the War for American Independence, and newly minted congressman. Jack finds himself off to a promising start, however, when he’s given command of the merchant vessel Abigail bound from Philadelphia for Barbados. But even before the dock lines are cast off, the voyage, which should have been routine, begins to look like a stormy passage indeed.

John Milton tuait autrefois pour le compte du gouvernement britannique. Il essaie désormais de se racheter, une mission après l’autre. Hanté par son passé, Milton vit incognito à Londres, offrant son aide à ceux qui n’ont personne vers qui se tourner. Quand il fait la rencontre d’Eddie Fabian, un homme suicidaire, brisé par les abus vécus dans son enfance, il décide de s’impliquer. Mais avant qu’il ait le temps d’agir, Eddie est retrouvé mort. Et quelque chose ne colle pas.

John Milton pensait en avoir fini avec Avi Bachman. L’homme le plus dangereux qu’il ait jamais connu s’est retrouvé incarcéré à Angola, la prison impitoyable de Louisiane. Une fois enfermé là-bas, on ne ressort que dans une boîte en bois. Mais Bachman n’est pas un prisonnier ordinaire. En tant qu’ancien assassin au service du Mossad, il a des relations.

John Milton s’efforce de se racheter après sa carrière de tueur à gages pour les Services secrets britanniques. Il cherche désespérément à réparer ses erreurs et à réécrire son passé sanglant. Il se retrouve en Louisiane – au cœur du bayou et parmi les ravages de Katrina – avec une dette à payer. Isadora Bartholomew, qui a sauvé la vie de son partenaire, a besoin d’aide. Joel Babineaux, un magnat de l’immobilier, a décidé de saboter l’association qu’elle a fondée pour reconstruire le quartier du Lower Ninth.

Fuyant ses propres démons, John Milton part faire un trek dans le Michigan avant de débarquer dans la ville de Truth. Il ne cherche pas les ennuis mais les ennuis eux le trouvent. Il va devoir affronter un policier qui n’a aucune idée de qui il a en face de lui, ni du danger que Milton représente. Milton est méchamment blessé après avoir été trahi. Seul et sans arme, il s’enfuit dans les lointaines montagnes du Porc-Epic, avec plusieurs hommes à ses trousses. Ses ennemis croient pouvoir le retrouver. Ils commettent une erreur et, avec Milton, c’est déjà une de trop.

Brought to you by Penguin. A remarkable performance... As gripping as The Collector and The Magus' Observer Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a disgraced woman, and...

It is 1781 and the British-held American port of Yorktown on the Chesapeake Bay is under siege. Pounded by the American colonists on land and the deadly warships of their French allies at sea, the once proud city is in flames and near ruin. But on the horizon, the King's own fleet of heavily...

Ahriman vegetiert auf der Schwelle von Zeit und Raum und treibt hilflos durch ein Zwischenreich unbekannter Größe und Gestalt. Zu guter Letzt hat er gefunden, wonach er gesucht hat: jene uralte Apparatur der Necrons, die als der Schlüssel zur Unendlichkeit bekannt ist. Es sollte ein Moment des Triumphes sein, aber er ist nicht mehr der Ahriman, der er einst gewesen ist. Er ist verraten und verloren, ein einsamer Hexer ohne Verbündete, umgeben von den Trümmern seiner großen Pläne.

Brought to you by Penguin. Both a fast-paced story of social unrest and strike, and the tale of one young man's struggle for identity, IN DUBIOUS BATTLE is a novel about the apocalyptic violence that breaks out when the masses become the mob. Set in California apple country, a strike by migrant...

In 1859, in a small town jail, deep in the forests of Canada, an elderly woman sits behind bars. She came to Dunmore via the Underground Railroad to escape enslavement, but an American bounty hunter tracked her down. Now she's in jail for killing him. Lensinda Martin, a smart young reporter, wants to tell the woman's version of events, hoping that it will lead to her acquittal, but the woman will only tell her story on one condition: she gets one from Lensinda in return. As the women swap stories, it becomes apparent that their histories are interconnected.

Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and...

Following hot on the paws from the bestselling A Pug Like Percy, the nation’s favourite pug is back! And this time, Percy has puppies… Percy the pug has found a loving home with Gail, Simon and their daughter Jenny. But now it’s time for Percy’s new puppies to fly the dog bed, and become...

‘Angela’s Ashes on four legs’ Evening Standard A furry festive miracle who’s there for you with a helping paw. Percy definitely isn’t just for Christmas… Percy is homeless, abandoned by his owner at an animal rescue centre on a cold winter’s night. So when he finds a loving new...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Blood Sisters by Jane Corry, read by Emilia Fox and Zoe Thorne. THREE LITTLE GIRLS SET OFF TO SCHOOL ONE SUNNY MORNING. WITHIN AN HOUR, ONE OF THEM IS DEAD. 'So many twists and turns, I just couldn't put it down! Highly...

Set ten years after Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom’s death, Rabbit Remembered returns readers to the small Pennsylvania town where Harry’s widow, Janice, and his son, Nelson, still reside. They are faced with a surprise when Annabelle, Harry’s 39-year-old illegitimate daughter, arrives on the...

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the fifth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’. THE PUZZLE OF THE PURPLE SICKLE The suicide of a sales clerk at the box office of a London cinema leaves another girl in fear for her life...

REMEMBER ME WHEN THE COMET COMES... On the day the comet came, a girl named Heloise was born. She would live a fine life, and inherit a fortune, but would meet a cruel, untimely death. Years later, strange dreams plague Katya Nemcová, a teenager burdened with a rare and curious gift. Memories...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Wych Elm by Tara Elm, read by Paul Nugent. For me it all goes back to that night, the dark corroded hinge between before and after, the slipped-in sheet of trick glass that tints everything on one side in its own murky colours and leaves everything...