A Room of One's Own: Popular Penguins

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written War and Peace, over the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister, over t...

The Summer I Turned Pretty (#1)

Jenny Han

From the author of To All The Boys I've Loved Before (now a smash-hit Netflix movie), this is the perfect funny summer romance for fans of The Kissing Booth and Holly Bourne.One girl. Two boys. And the summer that changed everything . . . Every year Isabel spends a perfect summer at her favourite place ...

Northanger Abbey: Popular Penguins

Jane Austen

Catherine Morland should know better. She's the very ideal of a nice, normal girl. But Catherine is cursed with an overactive imagination. She is also obsessed with lurid Gothic novels, where terrible things happen to the heroine. Which gets her into all sorts of trouble... When Catherine visits Bath an...

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'. A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveya...

Girl Online (#1)

Zoe Sugg

Girl Online is the #1 bestselling debut novel from Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella, the YouTube phenomenon with millions of subscribers - now available in paperback. I have this dream that, secretly, all teenage girls feel exactly like me. And maybe one day, when we realize that we all feel the same, we can all st...

Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton; Angus Gowland (Editor)

A new Penguin Classics edition of Burton's masterpiece - ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, in reality an all-encompassing examination of the human condition. The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the 17th-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens an...