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Explore new perspectives with these small books filled with big ideas.

Written by some of our most exciting thinkers and storytellers, Penguin Specials are small books filled with big ideas. Escape, learn and explore, all in the space of your lunch break. 

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The Coal Face: Penguin Special
Tom Doig
Mistakes Were Made: Penguin Special
Liam Pieper
You're Just Too Good to Be True: Penguin Special
Sofija Stefanovic
England's Yellow Peril
Anne Witchard
The First Dismissal: Penguin Special
Luke Slattery
The Adolescent Country: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special
Peter Hartcher
Youtility for Real Estate
Jay Baer
The Tunnel: Penguin Special
Dennis McIntosh
Does Cooking Matter?
Rebecca Huntley
The Ellis Laws
Bob Ellis
Chomping at the Bitcoin
Zennon Kapron
From the Tsar's Railway to the Red Army
Mark ONeill
Picnics Prohibited
Frances Wood
Salad Days
Ronnie Scott
Betrayal in Paris
Paul French
Getting Stuck in For Shanghai
Robert Bickers
Beyond the Boom: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special
John Edwards
Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal Author Quest
J. M. Lee,Nancy Gray,Vinnie Chiappini,Esther Palmer,Greg Coles
One Lesson
Lorelie Brown
The Chinese Labour Corps
Mark ONeill
Rudd, Gillard and Beyond: Penguin Special
Troy Bramston
Is There No Place for Me?: Making Sense of Madness: Penguin Special
Kate Richards
The Simple Life: Penguin Specials
Rhonda Hetzel
The Simple Life: Penguin Special
Rhonda Hetzel
Fields of White: Penguin Special
Keyi Sheng
Youtility for Accountants
Jay Baer
The Siege of Tsingtao
Jonathan Fenby
Back from the Dead: A Landmark Ruling of Wrongful Conviction in China Penguin Specials
Jiahong He
The Badlands
Paul French
What Would Gandhi Do?
Michael Kirby
Utzon and the Sydney Opera House: Penguin Special
Daryl Dellora
The 8 Motivational Challenges
Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.
A Story of Grief: Penguin Special
Michaela McGuire
Nothing to Lose
Jill Shalvis
Take Your Best Shot: Penguin Special
Jacqueline Kent
Take Your Best Shot: The Prime Ministership of Julia Gillard: Penguin Special
Jacqueline Kent
End of the Road?: Penguin Special
Gideon Haigh
A Soldier's Heart
Alexis Morgan
Plainly Murder
Isabella Alan
Streak of Lightning
Clare O'Donohue
The Loyalty Leap for B2B
Bryan Pearson
From This Moment On
Addison Fox
Ace Jones
Stephanie McAfee
Sunset At Keyhole Canyon
Jesse Hayworth
His Broken Angel
Beth Ciotta
Governor Bligh & the Short Man: Penguin Special
Peter Cochrane
Armed and Dangerous
Jo Davis
Lonely is the Night
Stephanie Tyler
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