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'Moving and vital' i NEWS 'A beautiful book' EVENING STANDARD 'Deserves to be read by as wide an audience as possible' DAILY MIRROR How do we give a voice to...

A LIBRARYREADS PICK AND BEST BOOK CLUB PICK OF 2023 "A writer of astonishing grace, delicacy, and feeling."-Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay...

'Wow. This was an incredible book. I couldn't put it down!' NetGalley reviewer 1966: In London , Jackie Collins 's racy The World is Full of Married Men hits bookshops...

'Got under my skin in the way the best writing can' SHEILA HETI, author of MOTHERHOOD A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism, from an electrifying...

'I devoured this in a day, falling head over heels for Daisy and the band' REESE WITHERSPOON SOON TO BE AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING SAM CLAFLIN, RILEY KEOUGH...

No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated "its own kind of moral laws," spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced...

A haunting portrayal of addiction and a troubled young woman 'She understands Karma, she says- \"What I do, I reap\"' Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine...

A romantic, thrilling memoir that has become a French classic 'You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Ambassador of France!' For his whole life, Romain Gary's fierce,...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.' After seven years of marriage, the...

Kate Grenville's latest bestselling novel, now in a beautiful paperback edition What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a...

An unforgettable and life-affirming story of a renowned novelist facing a devastating diagnosis from the Number One bestselling author. From Number One bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable story -...

This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. Based on...

'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'...

'I devoured this in a day, falling head over heels for Daisy and the band' REESE WITHERSPOON SOON TO BE AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING SAM CLAFLIN, RILEY KEOUGH...

Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'At that time I could not imagine what would become of me,...

Ernest Hemingway's last novel written before his death and his most autobiographical Hemingway's last major novel, set in the Gulf Stream islands, captures the struggles of adult personal relationships in...

Published for the first time in English, this deeply autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago tells the powerful story of the Mau-Tempo family. This deeply personal work, follows...

From 'a novelist of dazzling mastery' (Independent) and the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize- a novel about creative origin and aspiration, inspired by the author's own...

Moving, ribald and semi-autobiographical, Lives of Girls and Women is the only novel from Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'Superb' Independent 'Exact and unflinching' Guardian Catching...

The Sunday Times bestselling debut novel from the prize-winning prodigy ** Sunday Times Bestseller ** Brilliant, heart-breaking and highly original, TikTok has fallen in love with Ocean Vuong's shattering portrait...

What if Hillary hadn't married Bill? RODHAM is the latest addictive Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of AMERICAN WIFE, perfect for summer reading. BY...

An astonishingly beautiful work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers Each summer of her childhood, the daughter visited her father at his remote Faro island home...

From the queen of domestic horror, this is a masterpiece of domestic comedy Shirley Jackson's 1953 classic about life with her husband and four children in rural Vermont is one...

A marvel of psychological insight from one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth century This enormously engaging, strange novel is both an engrossing saga of a...

A soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me...

Le Carre's singular story of a cautious man plunged into recklessness, published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful,...

One of the strangest novels ever written - part daydream, part diatribe and part autobiography - by one of the great eccentrics of English literature The titlular character of Hadrian...

Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Boyhood is a modern classic by the great Nobel Prize winner accompanied by an introduction from acclaimed...

Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Youth is a modern classic by the great Nobel Prize winner accompanied by an introduction from bestselling...

And he was just a boy, this Mr Coetzee. I was a woman and he was a boy. He was a boy as a priest is always a boy until...

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Claire G Coleman, Mazin' Grace is a moving reimagining of a mother's girlhood, told by her daughter. Growing...

'A superb storyteller - one of the very best in our language' Daily Mail A masterpiece of modern literature that mirrors Maugham's own career. Of Human Bondage is the first...

From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World : a thrilling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AI 'Monstrously good......

'An expansive novel reminiscent of the literary breadth, humanity, and historical depth found in Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate' Christophe Boltanski, winner of the 2015 Prix Femina for The Safe...

Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish Children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the Kindertransports bound for Britain. Among them was 10 year...

'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' GILLIAN FLYNN'Delightfully disturbing' iNEWS'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMES From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and...

'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' GILLIAN FLYNN'Delightfully disturbing' iNEWS'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMES From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and...

Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2023'A hugely impressive debut' SARAH WATERS'[A] haunting and moving story' SUNDAY TIMES'A powerful and inspired achievement. This one is not to...

'An engrossing, enthralling and utterly captivating read, The Young Pretender tells a simply remarkable story with bounce, energy, wit, and lively authenticity . . . Michael Arditti's brilliant imaginative achievement...

'No Country for Love is Doctor Zhivago meets Stalingrad - a mix of romantic historical fiction and gritty, reportage-like storytelling... The history is spot-on, going from pre-Communist times, through World...

A beautiful, heartbreaking novel based on the true story of an Afghan boy's journey in search of a place to call home. I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate...

Three Women meets Crudo: a frank and fresh literary debut about the dawn of dating apps in Amsterdam.'Sexual infidelity is unavoidable, for whatever reasons, in long monogamous relationships, so why...

A deeply moving new novel about the young Princess DianaDiana believes in love. Growing up amid the fallout of her parents' bitter divorce, she takes refuge in romantic novels. She...

A bildungsroman set over three acts, Ponyboy is a quest for self-identity set among the art world of Paris and Berlin. In the first act, Ponyboy's eponymous narrator-a pill-popping, speed-snorting...

In an atmosphere of abolition and revolution, Queen Charlotte Sophia, Britain's most famous (possibly) mixed-race Princess comes alive in this reimagined story of her life where romance, adventure and politics...

Growing up in Rostock, in the north of Germany, Walter has a comfortable upbringing: quiet and content, he spends his days scheming with school friends and resisting the torment of...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024A DAILY MAIL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023LONGLISTED FOR BEST FICTION IN THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS AUSTRALIA 2024Dolly Maunder is born at the...

From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse-the future Alexandra, last Empress of Imperial Russia-and her sister, Princess Ella. Their...