Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak; Max Hayward (TRN) Manya Harari (TRN)

On they went singing 'Eternal Memory', and whenever they stopped, the sound of their feet, the horses and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing...Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician an...

High Fidelity: Popular Penguins

Nick Hornby

From the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll. Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserabl...

Notes from Underground and the Double

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

'The best thing is to do nothing! Better conscious inertia! So, long live the underground!'Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Undergroundtells the story of his tortured life. With bitter irony, he ...

The Most Ungrateful Girl in the World

Petra James

The ranks of the ungrateful are recruiting. When Izzy Winkle - The Most Grateful Girl in the World - enters a competition to find The Most Ungrateful Girl in the World, she is plunged into a hidden society of secret agents, brave pigeons and warring manners. Pulling her in one direction is Daphne du Boi...

The Memorial Feast for Kokotoy Khan - A Kirghiz Epic Poem in the Manas Tradition

Saghïmbay Orozbaq uulu; Daniel Prior (Translator)

An ancient Central Asian epic, passed down through generations, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors and horselords   A Penguin Classic   This tale from the Manas epic gives the reader startling, brilliantly colored access to the world of the horse-based nomad cultures of Central Asia...