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The death of a loved one is the most traumatic experience any of us face. No two people cope with it the same way: some cry while others remain dry...

Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism turns received economic wisdom on its head to show you how the world really works.In...

The iconic dome of the Taj, charred on the first night of the siege, is long rebuilt, the bloodstains in the concourse of the railway terminus wash...

Three thrilling adventures featuring the indomitable cousins Dinu, Minu, Polly and Ravi When Ravi comes from Bombay to stay with his three cousins ...

The British monarchy may be over a thousand years old, but the House of Windsor dates only from 1917, when, in the middle of the First World War th...

'A book for serious slurpers' - Matthew Fort, The Guardian From the intense flavours of a clear consumme to the hearty warmth of a good broth, from...

This reissue is a facsimile of an edition published in 1946 in the hardback King Penguin series, which, while not itself a facsimile, attempted to ...

It is the twenty-fourth of December. Mean old Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his freezing cold office shouting 'Bah! Humbug!' at anyone who dares wish hi...

A corner of a foreign field seamlessly interweaves biography with history, the lives of famous or forgotten cricketers with wider processes of soci...

Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using t...

Set in Shahjahanpur during the revolt of 1857, A Flight of Pigeons is Ruskin Bond’s classic novella about the twists of fate, history and the human...

A handful of nuts is a gloriously funny and unexpectedly tender story of being young and adventurous in small town India.The narrator hopes to esta...

With this haunting novel about romantic loss and fatalism, Namita Gokhale confirms her reputation as one of India s finest writers, and one with th...

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his fam...

She defied her parents to marry for love... Following her heart, Fifi moves with Dan to London where they rent a seedy flat in Dale Street, Kenning...

Carla Tradescant loathes everything about her husband Alan. She loves him once, when he was a trendy, radical university lecturer. But now - a care...

Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now ...

Goodreads Rating: 3.76 Publisher: Penguin Popular Classics About:  Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swep...