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Mary Shelley's landmark novel that invented the human extinction genre and initiated climate fiction, imagining a world where newly-forged communities and reverence for nature rises from the ashes of a pandemic-ravaged society, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, with a foreword by Rebecca SolnitA Penguin ClassicWritten while Mary Shelley was in a self-imposed lockdown after the loss of her husband and children, and in the wake of inte...

A wartime nurse brings hope in the dark in the brand new heartwarming and gripping historical novel from beloved bestseller Diney Costeloe. They knew each other as mistress and maid. Lucy, daughter of the house. Mabel the reluctant maid, who had to put her own ambitions aside when her family fell on hard times. By the time World War I breaks out, their paths have gone separate ways. Lucy has married. Mabel has inherited a printing business f...

From dogs and cats to hamsters, fish and stick insects, Russell explores more than 50 unique pets in Pet Selector!, a hilarious guide to pets’ personalities, needs, wants and origin stories.

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It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But 'home' is Dimperley, built in the 1500s, vast and dilapidated, up to its eaves in debt and half-full of fly-blown taxidermy and dependent relatives, the latter clinging to a way of life that has gone forever. And worst of all - following the death of his heroic older brother - Valentine is now Sir Valentine, and is responsible for the whole bloody place. To Valen...

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This groundbreaking volume will provide a series of original essays by scientists, theologians, religious studies scholars, and ethicists who will offer an authoritative, illuminating, and thought-provoking overview of the CRISPR controversy. There are moments when genetic science ignites an explosion of public controversy. In the early 1990s, the Human Genome Project, along with Jurassic Park, frightened the world with genetic determinism. Th...

Mesmeric, intoxicatingly original' Hannah Kent, bestselling author of Burial Rites'Haunting and surreal, And Then She Fell had me questioning reality alongside Alice as she grappled with motherhood, being a writer, a wife, and feeling like an outsider in her own life. With its sharp wit and beautiful writing, this book had me flying through the pages.' Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines'A towering achievemen...

Legendary ballet dancer and entertainer Wayne Sleep looks back on the extraordinary times he's lived through, always at the centre of the glitz and glamour of celebrity life, yet always too an outsider.

This book explores the relationship between the English law of unjust enrichment and legal obligations arising from other branches of the law. It examines the question, primarily, by considering how English courts resolve conflicts between restitution claims and countervailing legal entitlements. This is much needed given recent cases such as IEG v Zurich Insurance and Avonwick Holdings Ltd v Azitio Holdings Ltd clearly showing the differing...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswas is V.S. Naipaul's best-loved novel, a tragicomic tour de force.

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Responsibility is an important idea in many areas of healthcare. This volume brings together leading scholars writing on a range of questions about the role of responsibility in healthcare, and drawing on a range of academic perspectives including philosophy, politics, and psychology.

Introduces readers to the geography and human history of one of the largest islands in the Caribbean.Now in its second edition, The History of Puerto Rico is a richly informed and thoughtful introduction to the fourth-largest Caribbean island and its peoples. Beginning with an overview of the island's earliest inhabitants and placing particular emphasis on the pre-colonial Taino culture, the book explores Puerto Rico's long history as a colony...

Civil society organizations report that fourteen children disappear every day in Mexico. This book studies the origins of this social phenomenon and its consequences, not only in the emotional sphere, but also in how children have been treated. Focusing on children's special positions within Mexican society rather than criminal acts or the implementation of the law, Sosenski links social and cultural history, the history of crime and fear, the...

This volume explores the global history of natural dyes from the Americas and asks how their production and trade have shaped globalisation since early modern times. From their extraction and processing to their overseas trade, it shows how this commodity contributed to the rise of the textile industry and consumption in Europe, the United States and Latin America. In doing so, it sheds new light on the emergence of a global economy. Spannin...