Books Under €20

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we make ourselves into better human beings? Can...

Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. Featuring Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Ocean...

Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions...

An authoritative new translation of Plato's The Republic by Christopher Rowe, with notes and an introduction.'We set about founding the best city we could, because we could be confident that...

The horror story your students have been asking you for! The only children's story by the master of horror.

WINNER OF THE 2025 KATE O'BRIEN AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE'A taut generational story set on a South London estate' Independent, July Book of the Month'McDonald is skilled...

In "The Waiting Land" (first published in 1967) Dervla Murphy affectionately portrays the people of Nepal's different tribes, the customs of an ancient, complex civilization and the country's natural grandeur...

An inspiring tale from Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman celebrating the world's most iconic train, Flying Scotsman, and its greatest fan, a young girl named Iris. Iris knows everything there...

An Observer Best Debut of the Year A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'I loved this book' JULIA ARMFIELD 'Exhilarating' MONICA HEISEY 'Astonishing' ANDREA LAWLOR 'Should be on everyone's summer...

'We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'Sherlock Holmes's fearless chronicler Dr Watson once again opens...

THE 2025 HUGO AND NEBULA AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVELFrom New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes a dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl,...

'A stylish, suspenseful quartet of novellas tinged with the supernatural' Daily MailFrom Joyce Carol Oates come four psychologically daring and chillingly suspenseful stories where women face threats both past and...

The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according...

A Guardian literary highlight A Huffington Post 'One to Watch' 'Astounding' LENA DUNHAM, creator of Girls and author of Not That Kind of Girl'The First Bad Man brings together all...

In this essential Star Wars Legends novel, the sequel to Heir to the Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn's sinister plan threatens to spell doom for the fledgling New Republic and its...

'One of the greatest love stories in world literature' Vladimir NabokovThe heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, but...

Many of us in the modern world are unhappier than they need to be, and mindfulness offers a solution that works. Science and clinical practice have only recently 'discovered' the...

The 8th title in the New York Times bestselling Big Nate series! With a new crush, and the annual Mud Bowl coming up, can Nate make a good impression without...

An extraordinary bond develops between an angry teenage runaway and a middle-aged woman running a large farm on her own, as they work the land and slowly heal ... the...

Big Nate is back, starring in the third instalment of his own super-funny series. Big Nate is created by Lincoln Peirce, who inspired Jeff Kinney, author of 'Diary of a...

Big Nate is back the sixth instalment of his own super-funny series. Big Nate is created by Lincoln Peirce, who inspired Jeff Kinney, author of 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid'....

A super-sized, super-funny compilation of all the most hilarious moments from Big Nate's long running, much-loved comic strip. Big Nate is created by Lincoln Peirce, who inspired Jeff Kinney, author...

Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller!As a young man, Roald Dahl's adventures took him from London to East Africa, until the Second World War...

'Astonishingly beautiful... The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation' Harpers 'A life changing read for me. Describes a New York that has completely disappeared and for which...

Want to know what dogs are thinking? What they feel, and what they can smell with that great big nose of theirs? Here's your chance to experience the world nose...

From the earliest flickering pictures to the triumph of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, this year-by-year guide to the films, the stars, and the innovations of movie-making brings the...

A dark, supernatural romance, perfect for fans of Holly Black, Cassandra Clare and Stephenie Meyer.Mara Dyer wakes from a coma in hospital with no memory of how she got there...

This updated edition of the best-selling handbook Accounting for Non-Accountants provides the perfect introduction to the basics of accounting and business finance. It takes you through accounting and financial techniques...

The New Cambridge English Course is a course teachers and students can rely on to cover the complete range and depth of language and skills needed from beginner to upper-intermediate...

In this evocation of twelve world cities which have been either intertwined with his life, or otherwise aroused his particular interest, Roy Jenkins follows up Churchill with a book of...