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The Song of the Lark
The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young woman Thea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in...
Fiasco
'A stunningly inventive fantasy about cosmic travel' - The New York Times 'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun- the purposeful and the...
Notes of a Native Son
A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his...
My Life
Marc Chagall's colourful, hilarious, dream-like autobiography Chagall was born in Witebsk in White Russia, the son of a herring merchant who lived opposite a laundress and a chimney sweep. After...
The Secret Pilgrim: The Smiley Collection
As we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, the Smiley Collection offers a special look for the books featuring John le Carre's most iconic character- George...
The Looking Glass War: The Smiley Collection
As we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, a special look for the books featuring his iconic character, George Smiley A department of ageing British spies...
Smiley's People: The Smiley Collection
As we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, a special look for the books featuring his iconic character, George Smiley The seventh Smiley novel sees a...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: The Smiley Collection
As we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, a special look for the books featuring his iconic character, George Smiley In his fifth outing George Smiley...
Smiley's People
The third and final novel of le Carre's 'Karla Trilogy', Smiley's People now published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time The murdered man had been an agent -...
Single & Single
A complex, psychological novel about familial loyalty, new to Penguin Modern Classics A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a...
A Perfect Spy
Considered a masterpiece of the genre, le Carre's preeminent spy novel is new to Penguin Modern Classics Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on- for...
The Naive and Sentimental Lover
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,...
A Most Wanted Man
A novel of tremendous political relevance - adapted into a critically-acclaimed film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman - and new to Penguin Modern Classics A half-starved young Russian man in a...
The Little Drummer Girl
Enthralling and thought-provoking, The Little Drummer Girl is le Carre's only spy novel set in the Middle East, and is now published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time....
The Honourable Schoolboy
The second book in le Carre's 'Karla Trilogy', The Honourable Schoolboy is a new addition to Penguin Modern Classics It is a beleaguered and betrayed Secret Service that has been...
The Constant Gardener
The gripping story of a husband's personal odyssey to find justice - adapted into an award-winning film in 2005 starring in Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz - and new to...
Absolute Friends
The story of two friends whose dubious relationship spans West Berlin in the 1960s through the Cold War to the age of present day terrorism is new to Penguin Modern...
The Ice Palace
A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural Norway In winter, the black ice cracks like a gunshot across the lake, growing thicker...
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism, a surprise bestseller in 2017 Arendt's classic work explores totalitarianism through an extended analysis of the Nazi and Soviet regimes. In a series of dazzling...
Hadrian the Seventh
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...
The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography
Part biography, part detective story- the extraordinary life of the eccentric writer Frederick Baron Corvo One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar novel called Hadrian the Seventh and,...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the...
It Can't Happen Here
New to Penguin Classics, Lewis's 1935 bestseller about a demagogue who becomes president of the United States is 'frighteningly contemporary' It's 1935 and discontent is rife in America. From the...
Silence: In the Age of Noise
From the Norwegian explorer, a stunning meditation on the power of silence and how to shut out the world Behind a cacophony of traffic noise, iPhone alerts and our ever-spinning...
Dark Tales
Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories There's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the...
The Samurai
A superb historical novel by one of Japan's greatest novelists In 1613 Father Pedro Velasco's dream came true. He set sail with a small group of Japanese Samurai first for...
Weights and Measures
A short, brilliantly evocative novel set in the bleak eastern European borderlands before the First World War An artillery officer is persuaded by his resentful wife to leave the Austro-Hungarian...
Ice
A classic 1960s novel of J.G. Ballard-ian strangeness, from one of Britain's most haunting and unforgettable voices The world is threatened by encroaching ice, creeping down day by day from...
Maigret and Monsieur Charles: Inspector Maigret #75
The last novel in Simenon's celebrated series When an elegant but nervous woman appears in Inspector Maigret's office and reports her rich and successful husband missing, Maigret and Lapointe find...
Maigret and the Informer: Inspector Maigret #74
In the penultimate novel in the series Maigret investigates a crime in Paris's seedy red light district The body of a well-known Parisian restaurateur turns up on Avenue Junot in...
Maigret and the Killer: Inspector Maigret #70
Maigret is called to investigate the stabbing of a young man When a tape recorder is found on a murder victim, Inspector Maigret hopes this will be the clue he...
Maigret's Childhood Friend: Inspector Maigret #69
A visit from an old school-friend leads Maigret to a murderous affair When a long lost friend pays a visit to Maigret's office, he is shocked to learn that the...
Maigret's Patience: Inspector Maigret #64
Maigret investigates the murder of a criminal he had known for twenty years Maigret finds himself back on the Rue des Acacias just ten days after cracking another case there....
Maigret Defends Himself: Inspector Maigret #63
When Maigret becomes the accused he must rely on his investigative skills to prove his innocence For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the...
Maigret and the Ghost: Inspector Maigret #62
When a colleague is injured in an undercover operation Maigret takes over and becomes embroiled in the dark underbelly of the Parisian art scene During an undercover case Inspector Lognon...
Maigret and the Tramp: Inspector Maigret #60
Inspector Maigret investigates an attack on a Parisian tramp When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being badly beaten, Maigret must delve into the man's personal circumstances to...
Maigret and the Saturday Caller: Inspector Maigret #59
Maigret has a visitor who admits his intentions to commit murder but when he goes missing Maigret worries that he himself has become the victim Inspector Maigret is followed home...
Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse: Inspector Maigret #58
When a man is found dead at home Maigret must look past the seemingly good intentions of the victim's family to figure out just who the culprit is A retired...
Blood and Guts in High School
The book that shocked a generation and introduced Kathy Acker as the enfant terrible of the 1980s literary underground This is a book about feminism, capitalism, sex, punk, youth, the...
Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories
Thirteen strangely wrought stories make up Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to....
Confessions of a Mask
The dawning of a young man's homosexual and sadistic desires A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. Each night he imagines his body punctured with arrows,...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
A groundbreaking text of educational philosophy and social reform, now in Penguin Modern Classics This seminal text argues that the perceived passivity of the poor is the direct result of...
A History of the Crusades II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the
Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion' The triumph of the First Crusade...
Facebook: The Inside Story
From renowned tech writer Steven Levy, the complete history of one of America's most controversial and successful companies Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from the simple website Zuckerberg's first built...
Maigret Goes to School: Inspector Maigret #44
Maigret heads to a small seaside town where the residents are closing ranks to hide the truth When a school teacher from near La Rochelle asks Maigret for help to...
Maigret and the Headless Corpse: Inspector Maigret #47
The discovery of a dismembered body leads Maigret into one of his strangest cases yet When a man's headless body is pulled from the Canal Saint Martin, Maigret and his...
The Celestial Hunter
An extraordinary tale of transformation from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher 'When hunting began, it was not a man who chased an animal. It was a being that...
Trio
From the bestselling author comes a transporting new novel about the secret lives of a film crew in Brighton, 1968 A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in...