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The Beast Within
New translation by Roger Whitehouse for this tale of murder, passion, and possession La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent...
Master and Man and Other Stories
Contains ten stories- The Two Hussars; Strider; A Prisoner in the Caucasus; God Sees the Truth But Waits; What Men Live By; Neglect a Spark; Two Old Men; How Much...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that he had encountered death itself. These seven compelling stories explore, in...
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
This volume includes Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; The Devil and Father Sergius. The four stories are all about love, but they take very different attitudes towards it. Tolstoy knows...
The Drinking Den
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...
Therese Raquin
Perhaps his most famous work, mile Zola's Ther se Raquin is a dark and gripping story of lust, violence and guilt, set in the gloomy back streets of Paris. This...
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
A sparkling new translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's...
The Satyricon
An updated translation of this risque and comic account of three travellers The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient...
Three Tales
Three stories that form Flaubert's last complete work and reveal him as a master of the short story form. First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions...
Sentimental Education
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...
Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Turgenev's collection of insights into Russia and the lives of those who live there Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of...
How Much Land Does a Man Need? & Other Stories
These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion that characterize all of his explorations in love, war, courage,...
Nana
One of the greatest of the Rougon-Macquart series, Zola's prostitute represents the destructiveness of a corrupt and decaying society Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives...
Resurrection
A new translation by Tony Briggs of Tolstoy's last major novel Resurrection (1899) tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a...
Macbeth: 'Shakespeare's darkest tale reimagined by the king of Nordic
The gripping new thriller from the number-one Sunday Times bestselling author of The Thirst. THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns...
The Son: The gritty Sunday Times bestseller that'll keep you guessing
The brand new thriller from no 1 bestselling crime author, Jo Nesbo, which sees a charismatic young prisoner breaking out of jail to find out the truth about his father's...
Blindness
A chillingly powerful dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from...
One Step Behind: Kurt Wallander
Three young friends are shot dead on Midsummer's Eve. Then one of Kurt Wallander's colleagues is murdered. Is it the same killer? It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet...
Sidetracked: Kurt Wallander
In this gripping thriller, Kurt Wallander's furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him and those he loves most into mortal danger. Midsummer approaches, and Inspector...
The Leopard: The twist-filled eighth Harry Hole novel from the No.1
A heart-stopping thriller from the international crime fiction star and top 5 bestseller that the Independent has called 'The next Stieg Larsson'. 'A cracking good thriller...that will keep you gripped...
The Redbreast
A new, dramatic look for Jo Nesbo's iconic Harry Hole detective series in 2022- what we are calling THE YEAR OF HARRY HOLE Harry Hole faces a new rising enemy....
Nemesis
Harry Hole and his team are in a race against time to crack the identity of a violent bank robber who always seems one step ahead. A pulse-racing Harry Hole...
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
A European classic of comic literature This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling, breathtaking sentence. Saints and sinners, emperors and...
The Housekeeper and the Professor: 'a poignant tale of beauty, heart
An enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family where one before did not exist. He is...
After Dark
Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning novel from the master of the surreal. *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN...
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of...
Life: A User's Manual
'The last major event in the history of the novel' Italo Calvino In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
A mesmerising, surreal novel - Murakami's most celebrated and influential masterpiece *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife...
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
A wildly inventive fantasy and a meditation on the many uses of the mind from one of the world's greatest writers *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS...
A Wild Sheep Chase
Leave reality behind and enter Murakami's fictional universe where nothing is ever as it seems *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A marvelous hybrid...
The Elephant Vanishes
A dizzying collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS,...
South of the Border, West of the Sun
'Casablanca remade Japanese-style'- a moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A moving, thoughtful story of...
Sputnik Sweetheart
A mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* A mystery story about love, the cosmos...
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
'Breathtakingly inventive' David Mitchell A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino....
Our Ancestors
A triptych of allegorical fables told in Calvino's ingenious genre-defying style. Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of...
Atomised
The gloriously moving and extravagantly filthy cult classic from the internationally bestselling author of Submission Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a...
Spring Snow
The first novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetraology Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich...
The Devil in the Flesh
One of the most startling literary debuts of all time, now in Penguin Black Classics As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning...
Child of Fortune
The dreamlike story of a single mother and her estranged 11-year-old daughter by Yuko Tsushima, the 'archaeologist of the female psyche' Child of Fortune is deceptively gentle and dreamlike, teetering...
Maigret and the Wine Merchant: Inspector Maigret #71
In this cautionary tale a ruthless businessman finally gets his comeuppance When a wealthy wine merchant is shot and killed in Paris, Inspector Maigret must investigate a long list of...
Maigret Hesitates: Inspector Maigret #67
A series of letters set Maigret up for a peculiar case Inspector Maigret receives a series of letters warning of a murder that is going to take place. The letters...
Maigret's Pickpocket: Inspector Maigret #66
Inspector Maigret falls victim to a pickpocket and is drawn into a peculiar incident A pickpocket steals Maigret's wallet only to return it the following day, on the condition that...
Maigret and the Nahour Case: Inspector Maigret #65
When a professional gambler is shot dead all except Maigret suspect his mistress is to blame Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler, Felix Nahour, who has been...
Maigret and the Lazy Burglar: Inspector Maigret #57
Maigret is determined to track down the murderer of a burglar who he had known for thirty years Set against a high-profile hunt for the latest criminal gang to hit...
Maigret and the Old People: Inspector Maigret #56
Maigret investigates the murder of an esteemed official Maigret is called to the home of Armand de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected official who has been found shot dead in his...
Maigret's Secret: Inspector Maigret #54
Maigret struggles to accept an old case whose conclusion still haunts him At a dinner party, Maigret recounts an old case in which Adrien Josset is found guilty and executed...
Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses: Inspector Maigret #53
Maigret struggles to crack a victim's uncooperative family to uncover the truth behind his murder in book fifty-three of the series. Maigret is called to the home of the Lachaume...
Maigret Travels: Inspector Maigret #51
Maigret investigates the circumstances surrounding the attempted suicide of a countess and the death of a multi millionaire, both seemingly strangers but staying in the same hotel. When multi-millionaire David...