A humorous feel-good novel about big loves, family, the art of self-discovery, and finding your destiny in life.

After three years in Colombia working as a humanitarian aid worker for the United Nations, Pelle Jellema leaves for the French Pyrenees, tired and disillusioned. At the French-Spanish border, his 500-mile journey on foot on the ancient Camino [The Way] to Santiago de Compostela begins. He hopes to get answers to the question of what he should do now that he is going to leave Colomb...

"The Idiot" is a novel by American humorist John Kendrick Bangs. The story revolves around the character of Smith, an ordinary man who suddenly becomes a genius after being struck by lightning. The book satirizes the obsession with intelligence and the notion that being a genius automatically leads to success and happiness.

As Smith navigates his newfound genius, he realizes that it is not all it's cracked up to be. His intelligence becomes a burden, alienating him from his friends and family...

"Bat Wing" is a mystery-adventure novel written by Sax Rohmer, first published in 1921. Set in London and Egypt, the story revolves around Paul Harley, a private detective, who is drawn into a series of perplexing events involving a valuable blue diamond known as the "Blue Water." The diamond has a curse associated with it, and its possession is believed to bring bad luck and tragedy.

Harley's investigation takes him into a world of international intrigue, ancient curses, and dangerous crimin...

All the sawmill’s forest is lost in devastating fires. After years of drought, a period of torrential rain breaks out. The barren slopes no longer hold water, and a black tidal wave rages through the river valley.

Eleven-year-old Mindra and her invalid grandmother are the last inhabitants of a village near the abandoned sawmill, high on the mountainside.

She rescues some survivors, who become her new family.

The world is tipping and they must make it on their own.

A child runs away from the funeral of her mother. A father she does not know.

A lonely man brings her food and they become friends.

She personifies an inheritance more fatal than the incriminating information her late mother hid somewhere. A foreign secret service is on her trail.

What do you do with sudden, uncontrollable outbursts of energy? Theo went cycling.

Just as lonely as working from home, but at least while cycling there was a landscape passing by.

A near collision earned him a cycling buddy. This will be something...

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. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have sha...