Products tagged with 'bbc: adventure novels that shaped our world'

Immerse yourself in Middle-earth with Tolkien's classic masterpiece, telling the complete story of Bilbo Baggins and the Hobbits' epic encounters with...

Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, all three parts of the epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, in one paperback. Features the definitive ed...

In his award-winning fantasy trilogy, HIS DARK MATERIALS, Philip Pullman invents a richly detailed and marvellously imagined world that is complex and...

IVANHOE (1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his first attempt to combine history and romance, which ...

'The best book Hemingway has written' New York TimesHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridg...

Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Authors' Club Best First N...

Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical

Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place.

Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.