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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Closely Watched Trains tells the story of Milos Hrma, a young railroad apprentice coming of age in wartime Czechoslovakia. Milos is...

'THE FRENCH SUSPENSE KING' NEW YORK TIMES In 1999, after publishing three cult novels, celebrated author Nathan Fawles announces the end of his writing career and withdraws to Beaumont, a...

Maigret is called to testify in court and reveals his doubts on the guilt of the accused Maigret receives an anonymous phone call concerning the brutal murder of a woman...

A new selection of stories featuring the celebrated literary detective, Inspector Maigret An ageing boxer caught in a love triangle. A wealthy Parisian family on the brink of collapse. A...

Author: Minu Kim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 44 This very charming picture book tells the story of boy who gets left behind by his big brother and his friends...

Debut novel by the author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY - The multi-million-copy original healing author THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER By the multi-million-copy author of WHAT...

The story of a life-long infatuation, which is seen by many as Flaubert's masterpiece Sentimental Education begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the...

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"An absolute treat... Szerb is a master novelist, a comedian whose powers transcend time and language" Nicholas Lezard, GuardianAt an end-of-season London soiree a young Hungarian scholar, Dr Janos Batky,...

A tale of wasted love, and beauty, by Japan's literary master Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the...

'Readers can't get enough of this enchanting story' The Sun 'A delightful journey into a fantasy realm where dreams make everything better' Daily Mail ' Hugely inventive and wise, we...

Living Things follows four recent graduates - Munir, G, Ernesto and lex - who travel from Madrid to the south of France to work the grape harvest. Except things don't...

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly...

A new translation in the Penguin Maigret series- the inspector uncovers some poisonous family politics. The moon must have risen above the mist, which was now faintly incandescent, and, when...

Nordic Noir goes Icelandic with the internationally bestselling Dark Iceland series launch Before Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsd ttir of the Reykjavik Police is forced into early retirement she is told...

If no one ever died, what would happen then? Experience a major literary universe in the making from global bestseller Karl Ove Knausgaard. 'Ferociously readable. . . I still can't...

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books It is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before...

Author: Mai Mochizuki Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 THE #1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING SERIES Welcome back to the Full Moon Coffee Shop. HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD AND TRANSLATED INTO...

Nineteen-year-old Lea is from a village that is out of time, out of jobs and out of hope. She and her friends, however, are vivid and electric with life. They...

One of the greatest translations of all time- Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Proust's masterpiece is one of the...

One of the greatest translations of all time- Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Proust's masterpiece is one of the...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Georges Simenon's brilliant pipe-smoking detective, Jules...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Of course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior...

A tale of unbridled greed and an insatiable thirst for power set in eleventh-century Scotland, Macbeth has long been recognized as Shakespeare's fastest-moving tragedy, combining relentless narrative momentum with a...

When an albatross strays too far from its home, or loses its bearings, it becomes an 'accidental', an unmoored wanderer. The protagonists of these eight stories each find the ordinary...

One of the great works of 19th century Realism, and one of Zola's best-known novels Set in the taverns of Paris, this is perhaps the first classical tragedy of working-class...

A masterful tale of murder and intrigue in a small French town, from the celebrated author of the Maigret series Nobody mentioned the victims, or the terror that had gripped...

A gripping new translation of the iconic short story collection featuring Simenon's celebrated literary detective 'The truth was, Maigret knew nothing! Maigret felt. Maigret was sure he was right, would...

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: 'I shot him between the eyes.' As the tale - a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and...

'A zeitgeisty rags-to-riches tale' DAILY MAIL 'An off-beat slice-of-life novel' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD The bestselling South Korean phenomenon, To the Moon is a bittersweet tale of wealth and class, female...

Hisataro, a young member of the wealthy Fuchigami family, has a mysterious ability. Every now and then, against his will, he falls into a time-loop in which he is obliged...

A BEAUTIFUL NEW PAPERBACK EDITION OF THE MAGICAL CHRISTMAS MYSTERY Twelve-year-old Flora Winter and her mother are off to the small seaside town of Helmersbruk for Christmas. When they arrive,...

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VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the most famous anti-war novel ever written, translated by Brian Murdoch. 'A necessary, shattering read' Irish Times In...

Eleven strange buildings. One terrible secret. A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison... Each of...

A Financial Times Translated Fiction Book of the Year Winner of the Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an...

One man's fight for revenge against a corrupt justice system. Kleist's influential German novella has been newly translated by the renowned Michael Hofmann. 'I finished it in one sitting. Probably...

One of the most beloved translations of all time returns to Penguin Classics- Scott Moncrieff's masterful version of Proust Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'But how sweet a fruit the 'suppose' must be, that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit, like...

One of Poland's most significant twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth....

Prequel to the bestselling The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game takes us to the turbulent Barcelona of the 1920s and the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. It's a spellbinding...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rank A delusional man whose...

First published in 1962, Men in the Sun is both a classic of Arab literature, and of what Kanafani himself would term 'resistance literature'. Three Palestinian men embark on a...

A riveting, funny coming-of-age story- the first volume in Pirkko Saisio's award-winning Helsinki trilogy 'Grandpa says everyone should leave me alone. If I want to be a boy, then I'm...

KNIFE is the brand new Harry Hole thriller from Jo Nesbo where Harry will come face to face with a deadly foe **THE No.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'This is the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!' A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'How I loved this book . . . Seethaler is in his very own league' Elizabeth Strout It is 1966, and Robert Simon has just...