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'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 ...

In the heart of Mumbai, three lost souls find unexpected hope in the quiet wisdom of a humble tea seller.Aditi, a single mother fighting for a fair chance, dreams of corporate success but is weighed down by self-doubt and rejection. Sumeet, a high-flying executive who has always walked in his father's shadow, feels a quiet emptiness creeping into his success. And beneath the old bodhi tree, Arjun sinks deeper into alcohol and debt, looking for an escape.Whe...

LyraSurvival is what I know.Before my mama left, she made it clear—you want something in life, a man can usually be used long enough to get it.Ten years ago, I let that concept slip through my fingers.Meeting Carver Roland changed my thinking.Until the night I left.Now that I’m back, he’s turned into nothing short of a monster. A beautiful devil disguised in tattoos and cowboy boots.He promises to make me wish I’d nev...

Es’kia Mphahlele’s seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa—available for the first time in Penguin ClassicsNominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es’kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African writing. Down Second Avenue is a landmark book that describes Mphahlele’s experience growing up in segregated South Africa. Vivid, graceful, and unapologetic, it details a daily life of severe poverty and bru...

In the Wasteland, no man is an island...except for him.Born after the era of cell phones, drive-thrus, and shopping malls, Isla McNeil isn't one to complain about her life in that hidden settlement they call the Valley. Perhaps the last safe place for hundreds of kilometres, she's lived there all her life alongside her grandparents, two siblings, and her childhood best friend, Noah Harding—-a massive, bearded mountain of taciturn muscle who thinks and listens more ...

'Stole my heart' Jennifer Saint, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ariadne 'This is a hymn to women' Samantha Shannon, internationally bestselling author of The Bone Season series 'A tender yet fierce reclamation of myth crafted by a masterful hand' Bea Fitzgerald, Sunday Times bestselling author of Girl, Goddess, Queen 'Utterly exquisite... nothing short o...

The dark, depraved, and addictive first book in the 'Red Order' series by internationally bestselling author, E.S Carter.I don't see dead people.I see you.I see every incarnation of you.I see the history of your soul.I can see your aura soaked in the blood of your previous lives.Most people are inherently good or evil.Some flit between darkness and light.Few can change the fabric of their essence; it's a fight that m...

In the shadow of Europe, battered by war, a clandestine group embarks on a mission to seek justice for unpunished war crimes. Haunted by their pasts, they weave through the moral maze to set up a code and select who is put on the list. This is a tale of avengers and the silent cries of history they honor. It is an odyssey of recompense where administering justice dons a mask of war. This while challenging the scope of villainy and victimhood in the dangerous, relentless pursuit of those wh...

In the shadow of Europe, battered by war, a clandestine group embarks on a mission to seek justice for unpunished war crimes. Haunted by their pasts, they weave through the moral maze to set up a code and select who is put on the list. This is a tale of avengers and the silent cries of history they honor. It is an odyssey of recompense where administering justice dons a mask of war. This while challenging the scope of villainy and victimhood in the dangerous, relentless pursuit of those wh...

In a bustling Jaipur bazaar, new neighbors find unexpected belonging in the quiet wisdom of a humble tea seller.Chamki has spent decades recording neighborhood secrets in notebooks. But when she learns of her daughter's pregnancy from another shopkeeper, she must face her own family secret.After her parents die, thirteen-year-old Leela and her younger brother are sent to live with an uncle in Jaipur. When she overhears his plan to separate them, she will do...

Tomás had long resigned himself to the voices…Until he found his constant.Tomás's childhood passed by in a fog of mysterious voices that no one else could hear. Without a family or friend to keep his mind focused, and no skills to guide him through life, he believed he would end up on the streets once he came of age.Until, one day, a mysterious visitor sees potential in Tomás.Without forewarning, Tomás uproots his life, and travels across t...

Fourteen-year-old Sean Harper has spent his entire life hiding his mismatched eyes—one blue, one crimson—from the bullies who call him demon boy, suppressing the fire that glows from his fists through every beating at home, and pretending he doesn't see the angels and demons who stare at him, unsure if he's their ally or their greatest threat.When a princess and a cybermonk save him from a samurai-looking assassin droid, Sean discovers a world far bigger—and far more dangerous—than...