Penguin Books Ltd: 3539 books
Boom
The Underground History of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
One of our finest writers on one of our most dramatic stories
Mining divides the country - development against conservation, north-and-west against south-and-east, pro-tax against anti-tax. It's an important industry, but why do passions run so high? What does mining really mean to us? And...
Pop Art
A Colourful History
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Pop Art by the BBC's Alastair Sooke - an essential but snappy new guide to our favourite art movement
Pop Art is the most important 20th-century art movement. It brought Modernism to the masses, making art sexy and fun with coke cans and comics. Today, in our age of selfies and social networking,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 READ RUSSIA PRIZE
Imagine that many of Russia's greatest writers of the twentieth century were entirely unknown in the West, and only recently discovered in Russia itself. Strange as it may seem, it is in fact true, and their rediscovery is setting the literary world...
by Aatish Taseer
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
A young man returns home to Delhi after several years abroad and resumes his place among the city's cosmopolitan elite - a world of fashion designers, media moguls and the idle rich. But everything around him has changed - new roads, new restaurants, new money, new crime - everything, that is, except...
Recipe for Life
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
As well as starring on The Great British Bake Off, Mary Berry is returning to our TVs with her brand new series, Britain's Best Home Cook . . . so indulge, and discover her autobiography.
From the moment she came into the world - two weeks early, throwing her parents' lives into disarray -...
Change
Learn to Love It, Learn to Lead It
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Change by Richard Gerver will give you all you need to understand change, to adapt to change, and to inspire others to do the same.
'To be successful, you have to be able to adapt to change' - Sir Alex Ferguson
The pace of change is greater than ever. We all face new challenges every...
Dear Cathy ... Love, Mary
The Year We Grew Up - Tender, Funny and Revealing Letters from 1980s Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
'Poignant, funny and highly readable. Would make a wonderful present.' Sue Leonard, Examiner
'A real snapshot in time ... a celebration of female friendship ... fantastic - such a good read' Irish Times Women's Podcast
'Engaging ... tender and true and spiced with wit and no little wisdom' RTE Guide
'Heart-warming...
by Henry Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Synthesizing a vast body of scholarly work, Henry Patterson offers a compelling narrative of contemporary Ireland as a place poised between the divisiveness of deep-seated conflict and the modernizing - but perhaps no less divisive - pull of ever-greater material prosperity.
Although the two...
Showtime
The Inside Story of Fianna Fáil in Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
In boom and in bust, Ireland has been led by Fianna Fáil. Showtime gets behind the party's remarkable dominance of the political landscape and leading political writer Pat Leahy, tells the gripping story of how it won, kept and has used power since the mid-1990s.
Showtime explains how Fianna...
by Canna Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Financial planner Canna Campbell saved $32,000 in twelve months by using her unique strategy of 'bundling' - saving and earning extra money in small, achievable 'parcels' of $1000. Now she wants to empower you to get the same results!
Drawing on material from her popular YouTube channel and...
by Stephen Breen, Owen Conlon
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
'It's incisive, it's intriguing, it's fascinating' - Ryan Tubridy, RTÉ
'Fascinating!' Keith Ward, FM104
The definitive account of the rise of the Kinahan gang and the deadly feud that has shocked the nation.
He is one of Ireland's most successful CEOs, running a global multinational...
The SHED Method
The new mind management technique for achieving confidence, calm and success
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Make 2019 your best year yet with the help of the The Shed Method - step-by-step advice to give you the drive to go after what you want and achieve real success.
'A new way to tackle life's challenges. Teaches you to get the best out of yourself' Red
Use your SHED - Sleep, Hydration,...
Brexit and Ireland
The Dangers, the Opportunities, and the Inside Story of the Irish Response
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
When the citizens of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, they delivered a profound shock to its nearest neighbour: Ireland. Brexit represents potentially the single greatest foreign-policy and economic challenge to the Irish state since the Second World War.
More than any...
by Troy Bramston
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
This ground-breaking new book will reveal the story of Australia's greatest political crisis with fresh interviews, the discovery of new archival material and a dramatic reinterpretation of events that will surprise readers. The treasure trove of new information already discovered by Paul Kelly and...