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Aidan Poole logs onto his laptop late at night to Skype his girlfriend, Zoe. But to his horror, he realizes she is not alone • Completely helpless, all he can do is listen to the sounds of a violent struggle • And then a chilling silence • He's desperate to find out if she is OK. So why is he so hesitant to call the police? • When his messages finally reach them, DCI Jonah Sheens and his team take the case • And discover the body • Watching from the Dark is the spellbinding thriller that you won't want to miss

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online • Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content • The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers story comprehension and develop vocabulary

In this very funny sports book (a cross between Nick Hornby and Bill Bryson) young journalist Lawrence Donegan tells the story of the summer he spent caddying for Scottish golfer Ross Drummond, ranked over 400 in the world,on the European Tour. Thisis the inside story of the geniuses,the cheats, the gurus and the hangers-on that make up the golf scene

Two sisters, Keely and Nina, disappear without a trace • Days later, Keely comes back, covered in blood • It's not her blood • Detective Jonah Sheens knows that she must know what happened to Nina. But before she tells him, Keely insists on telling their full story from the beginning • Is she a traumatised young woman, in need of help? • Or is she playing a deadly game? • Can Jonah find the truth - and the missing girl - before it's too late?

Louise wakes up. Her head aches, her mouth is dry, her memory's fuzzy. But she knows she's done something bad • She rolls over towards her husband, Niall • But it's not Niall lying beside her. In fact, she's never seen this man before • And he's not breathing

Inside lies a secret that won't stay hidden • The Great War is ending, but it has taken Ivy's son. Ivy is consumed by discovering what happened to her boy out there in the trenches, while her husband only wants to forget • Then a man comes back into Ivy's life who can help her find out. A man who once stole Ivy's heart. A man who also lost his son to a tragedy. A man whose name she hasn't spoken in thirty years • As Ivy questions her part in the fire at Polneath House, she unlocks a secret that's been burning ever since. But will the truth destroy her - or set her free?

«Фигура на ковре» — рассказ американского писателя Генри Джеймса, впервые опубликованный в 1896 году. Он рассказывается от первого лица; рассказчик, имя которого никогда не разглашается, встречает своего любимого автора и становится одержимым раскрытием тайного смысла всех произведений автора • Книга на английском языке • 'Did she know and if she knew would she speak?' • The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as "troubled artistic consciousness" • Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe

Romance, friendship, joy and the possibility of happy endings: the heartwarming new novel by number one bestseller, Katie Fforde • Lizzie has just arrived in London, determined to make the best of her new life • Her mother may be keen that she should have a nice wedding in the country to a Suitable Man chosen by her. And Lizzie may be going to cookery school to help her become a Good Wife • But she definitely wants to have some fun first • It is 1963 and London is beginning to swing as Lizzie cuts her hair, buys a new dress with a fashionably short hemline, and moves in with two of her best friends, one of whom lives in a grand but rundown house in Belgravia which has plenty of room for a lodger • Soon Lizzie’s life is so exciting that she has forgotten all about her mother’s marriage plans for her

Lost in history . . . losing her self. Uncover Tudor heroine Arbella Stuart's incredible story, reimagined by Elizabeth Fremantle in this tense, historical thriller • Hardwick Hall, sixteenth-century England • Formerly a beacon of wealth and power • Now a gilded prison • Hidden away, forgotten, one young woman seeks escape • But to do so she must trust those on the outside • Those who have their own motives • Discovery means death. But what choice has any woman trapped in a man's world? • Imprisoned by circumstance, Arbella Stuart is an unwilling contender for the throne. In a world where women are silenced, what chance does she have to take control of her destiny?

London, 1960. The lives of teenage twins Maisy and Duncan change forever the night their sick mother is taken to an asylum. Sent to live in the New Forest with their cold-hearted grandmother, Mrs Mitcham, they feel unloved and abandoned • And when one day Duncan doesn't come home from exploring in the forest, no one - least of all his grandmother - appears to care about his disappearance. The police, who've found the bodies of other missing boys, offer little hope of finding Duncan alive • Yet Maisy refuses to give up. Though she doesn't know the woods well, she knows someone who does. The strange old woman who lives at their heart • Dare Maisy enlist the help of the woman in the wood?

'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.' • Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment • Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life

The writings of one of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century - the 'female Lawrence of Arabia' - and the subject of a new film starring Nicole Kidman • In the last century, few people lived more astounding - or influential - lives than Gertrude Bell. During World War I, she worked her way up from spy to army major to become one of the most powerful woman in the British Empire. After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, she was instrumental in drawing the borders that define the region today, including creating an independent Iraq. This is the epic story of Bell's life, told through her letters, military dispatches, diary entries, and other writings. It offers a unique and intimate look behind the public mask of a woman who shaped nations