A brilliant new anthology that shows how fiction was reinvented in the twelfth century after an absence of hundreds of years.Before the twelfth century, fiction had completely disappeared in Europe. I
Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective—these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio'sDecameron in a brilliant, playful new translationIn the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague r
Cracking another country's cipher is an undercover fight to the death . . .Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at 'Unit 701', China's secret services, operate in a dark, shadowy world. There is
Maigret's past comes to life in this vivid new translation of this evocative novel, set in the Inspector's home town. Book thirteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. Maigret savoured the sensations o
A new translation of this chilling novel, set on the Belgian border. Book fourteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. She wasn't an ordinary supplicant. She didn't lower her eyes. There was nothing hu
Malthus’s provocative historical work on social economy, demography, and population controlMalthus’s seminal work on human population and its dependency on food production and other environmental fact
Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object o
A new translation of this moving novel about the destructive power of greed, book twenty in the new Penguin Maigret series. Poor Cécile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barel
Mildred Hubble is the worst witch at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches - she's always getting her spells wrong. But she manages to get by until she turns Ethel, the teacher's pet, into her deadly enem
A new translation of this gripping novel which sees the inspector brought out of his peaceful retirement, book nineteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. Maigret shrugged his shoulders, buried his ha
