'Spellbinding, elegant, and urgent . . . Held me from the first moment to the last' Katherine RundellThe great quest of Augustine's life was for truth. This was his true fire.Today, we are still the product of Augustine's thinking, only most of us don't know it. Our world is shaped by his ideas on time and language, his understanding of the self, his theory of 'Just War', his attitudes to sex and the body, his conception of God. Augustine wrote the world's ...

'Spellbinding, elegant, and urgent . . . Held me from the first moment to the last' Katherine RundellThe great quest of Augustine's life was for truth. This was his true fire.Today, we are still the product of Augustine's thinking, only most of us don't know it. Our world is shaped by his ideas on time and language, his understanding of the self, his theory of 'Just War', his attitudes to sex and the body, his conception of God. Augustine wrote the world's ...

From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eighteen plays that can be called 'comedies': a far higher number than that for any other genre in which he wrote. So what is a Shakespearean comedy? We associate these plays with such themes as mistaken identities, happy marriages, and exuberant cross dressing, but how representative are these of the oeuvre as a whole? In this ...

**COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER“The hidden gem of the year . . . Sensational and gripping, and shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time, this was our unanimous winner.” —Judges of the 2018 Costa AwardThe extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland during World War II, who hides from the Nazis in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents**Bart van Es left Holland for England ...

*** WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 ***WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Cut Out Girl written and read by Bart van Es.'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' The Times

**COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER“The hidden gem of the year . . . Sensational and gripping, and shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time, this was our unanimous winner.” —Judges of the 2018 Costa AwardThe extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland during World War II, who hides from the Nazis in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents**Bart van Es left Holland for England ...

From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eighteen plays that can be called 'comedies': a far higher number than that for any other genre in which he wrote. So what is a Shakespearean comedy? We associate these plays with such themes as mistaken identities, happy marriages, and exuberant cross dressing, but how representative are these of the oeuvre as a whole? In this ...

#1 UK Bestseller“A thoughtful, funny, companionable novel…executed with verve.”—London TimesThe author of the acclaimed Crooked Heart returns with a comic, charming, and surprisingly timely portrait of a once pioneering suffragette trying to find her new passion in post-WWI era London.Riffling through a cupboard, Matilda Simpkin comes across a small wooden club—an old possession that she hasn’t s...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield, read by John Sackville.In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in.When Gustav was set to be t...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker, read by Kristin Atherton and Michael Fox.A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of RegenerationShortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the International DUBLIN Literary AwardThere was a woman at th...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Love is Blind by William Boyd.Love is Blind is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel - set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life.When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly differ...

Brought to you by Penguin.In the depths of the archive, Hannah dances with the ghosts of Vichy France, lost in testimony and a desire to hear the voices of the past. Back in her apartment, Moroccan teenager Tariq crashes on her sofa, consumed by his search for the mother he barely knew. Their excavations will unearth rich histories that will teach them both just how much the future is worth fighting for.Paris Echo is a propulsive and haunting novel...