PENGUIN BOOKS

The river had burst its banks. The dam was overflowing. 'Don't go outside, Alex!' Mum shouted. But just then Rabbit hopped out the open window ...C...

It is the 1960s in Perth, Western Australia.  For Thomas Muir cool and steady life is a thing that goes on outside him.  But for his brother, hot...

When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than his partner - better than the paren...

The day is ending, night is falling, and Nicholas's cat won't come down. High on the roof she licks her paws while Nicholas worries about her up th...

Two funny Geronimo Stilton adventures (book #13 & #14) plus an audio CD for each book. Lovely box set for your lover of this Rattus Emeritus of...

From one of our favourite children's authors, Alison Lester, here is her latest picture book. She grew up on a farm in regional Australia and you a...

This is the true story of two twenty-year-old Australians who travelled for fourteen months on recumbent bicycles from Russia, across Siberia and M...

A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive religious parents. Hester has never seen the outside world; her companions are Cat, Spoon, Door, ...

The story of the overcoat begins with a chance meeting - between an obsessive bibliophile, Jacques Guerin, the head of a French perfume house, an...

It is 1949, and Guy Langton's houseŠ—”like his family's fortunesŠ—”has seen better days. The wealth and social standing that his grandparent's gene...

Sara Fanellli's book breaks all the rules: with its unique layout and construction, it is designed to be experienced, like a performance or a game...

Set in the in the atmospheric and squalid streets of Paris, Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder...

School is over, not just for the year, but forever. Tiff and Kayla are free, which is what they've always wanted, but now summer is nearly at and e...

Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she sits in a school where nobody understands her, she dreams of Polish s...

Jamal and Bibi have a dream. To lead Australia to soccer glory in the next World Cup. They know it won't be easy. They'll have to beat some reall...

Pell Ridley, daughter of a good-for-nothing preacher in rural England, has watched her mother suffer the intolerable burden of too many children, t...

In October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in LA's Union Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous ta...

We've all enjoyed the film (the original Gene Wilder one is the best!) but few know what happens next. Charlie Bucket is on his way, with Grandpa, ...

The Bell family's ancestors were showered with honours, gifts and grants of land. In exchange, they have bestowed a Gift, once every 25 years, on t...

Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg Heffley, who finds himself thrust into high school where undersized weaklings ...

The truth is . . .Thomas has an embarrassing secret. Is it a rare and special gift or the worst thing that could happen to a boy? A story about bes...

In her opulent novel, Eva Luna, Isabel Allende uses exquisite prose to describe the survival of a young Latin American woman whose powers as a stor...

FAQs on Marketing distills the essence of Philip Kotler's decades of experience into an eminently readable question-and-answer format. The author d...

Film star George Hannaford oozes charm. Although women fall at his feet, his marriage is the most solid in the movie business. But when he sees his...

In the tradition of Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for wri...

The hilariously compelling memoir that was hailed as an instant classic.'The first time I see drunks beat up my father I'm six and standing at the ...

So far, Marc E. Jarvis has lost a white football boot, a school tie and a best friend. But there's more in store for him when he completes Work Exp...

Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight is two weeks in the life of Joel Hedges and Cat Davis. Joel would prefer to get through his final year of high ...

Juicy Writing is a treasure-trove of inspiration and practical advice on creative writing - and on living a confident, creative life - especially f...

Mr Big is a gold thief, Lord of the 'Black Widow' voodoo cult and top SMERSH operative is one of the most dangerous opponents James bond has faced....

Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new redbrick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Departmen...

Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren...

Olive Kitteridge might be described by some as a battle axe or as brilliantly pushy, by others as the kindest person they had ever met. Olive herse...

Who dreams the dreamer? Claire lives in an ordinary world where everything is whole. But inside Claire is broken. The silvery notes of her music bo...

Readers of Tim Winton's Breath will be drawn to Kirsty Eagar's Raw Blue, an achingly beautiful young adult novel set in Sydney's northern beaches. ...

'... a deeply felt, passionately uplifting story...'Liam Davison. The Weekend AustralianRose Boys is the story of two brothers profoundly different...

One their way home from school one day, the boys saw a wonderful yellow sled in a shop window. The next day, they started doing a lot of extra work...

It's true, there's something in the world called love. Esma felt it when she moved into the house with the blue stairs. There was Kara beside her, ...

Jude's family are crazy, quirky, bizarre . . . her mum brings her nothing but trouble and her dad thinks he's Elvis! All she wants is a hassle-free...

One of the country's finest young cellists, 16 year-old Hugh Twycross has a very bright future. A future that has been mapped out by his parents, h...

 A literary triumph - winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican ...

Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curio...

Vera and Mr George have made a new life together but Vera's thoughts return again and again to loves and lovers, meetings and partings - the voices...

There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family. Because it was such a very small class, they had a very sma...

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with weal...