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Selby's disorienting, nightmarish and structurally inventive novel, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time 'It is quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size...

Hubert Selby Jr, one of America's most important novelists, comes to Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by...

Sabato's wonderful noir detective novel with a new introduction by Colm Toibin in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan...

Amis's hilarious satire on Anglo-American relations, part of a new series of reissues of his work in Penguin Modern Classics Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose...

A sly and wickedly entertaining novel from the irreverant Amis, new to Penguin Modern Classics The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you...

Amis's tale of an ill-fated affair, part of a new series of reissues of his work in Penguin Modern Classics Douglas Yandell, a young-ish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty...

Amis's portrayal of a not-so golden old age, part of a new series of reissues of his work in Penguin Modern Classics At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five...

This hilarious novel explores the twin jungles of sexual liberation and office politics in the heady world of 1960s London publishing Their troubled courtship long behind them, Jenny Bunn and...

'Auntie Mame is the most unconventional aunt you've ever known and you'll love her' Washington Star When shy young heir Patrick is orphaned at the age of ten, the only...

'At that moment the elephant shuddered and rose in the air. For a few seconds it swayed just above the ground but a gust of wind blew it upwards until...

A brand new translation of another novel in the Ferrara sequence which includes The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati...

One of three Bowles titles new to Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by Ange Mlinko A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the...

An explosive story of conspiracy and conspirators, of men caught in the desperate clash of ideologies, betrayal, expediency and free will, with a new introduction by Philip Gourevitch Shanghai, 1927,...

New to Penguin Modern Classics for this story of idealism and the America stage The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena...

New to Penguin Modern Classics for Sontag's first novel The Benefactor is Susan Sontag's first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and introduced a unique writer...

First time in Modern Classics for this elusive, disturbing and fascinating novel In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics for these ten tales for adults inspired by Dahl's experiences as a wartime fighter pilot During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in...

Fifty-two stories by Robert Graves in a new edition edited by his daughter Lucia, for the first time in Penguin Modern Classics The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote...

Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's...

New to PMC Updike's seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his...

New to PMC When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls...

Reissued in Modern Classics in the run up to the 50th anniversary of its first publication The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who...

First published in 1946, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1949 and re-made in 2006 with an all-star cast...

New to Modern Classics, published alongside the other Rabbit novels It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war...

First time in paperback for this charming novel of life in exile in the 1930s Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to...

'New to Modern Classics, with a new afterwordby Justin Cartwright It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his...

Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from...

'The first and, in some respects, still one of the best novels about the Beat Generation... brilliant and important' The Los Angeles Free Press The novel that launched the beat...

Published for the first time in Modern Classics alongside Doctorow's Ragtime. As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife...

'Perhaps the finest novel of the war .... A fine, lovely book which makes the heart beat with pride' Daily Telegraph When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied...

Unique novella that captures the mood of Cold war Berlin like no other - worth considering connecting publication in some way with 9th November anniversary of fall of the Berlin...

NEW selection of stories introduced by Julian Barnes The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns...

'Qian's ability to see his life and times through the lens of very dark humour, along with his talent for incidental cultural and social observation and his cold and cruel...

With a new introduction by Gilbert Adair Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean...

The key literary figure in the pubs of post-war Fitzrovia, Maclaren-Ross pulled together his dispersed energies to write two great books: the posthumously published Memoirs of the Forties and this...

A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one of Africa's great writers, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat includes an introduction by Abdulrazak Gurnah, author...

'A bitter yet funny satire ... probably the best book to come out of West Africa' Anthony Burgess As Minister for Culture, the Honourable M. A. Nanga is 'a man...

School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of fifties English life. Nothing escapes his disaffected eye and...

In this experimental trilogy, Dos Passos uses \"camera eye\" and \"newsreel\" sections to create a fragmented atmosphere. Through the testimony of numerous characters, both fictional and historical figures, he buids...

A nuanced, satirical portrayal of malevolent totalitarianism and sinister bureaucracy The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under...

A mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair.

This classic collection of short stories serves as the ideal introduction to Steinbeck's work. Set in the idyllic Salinas Valley in California, where simple people farm the land and struggle...

While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His...

A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside, where the whole world seems 'steeped in azure'. There he...

A portrait of New York City, drawn by describing the interconnected lives of dozens of people - bankers, chefs, bums, cabdrivers and others. Written in an impressionistic style, with vivid...

'A masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's The Turn of the Screw' Time Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a...

The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the...

Probably the greatest twentieth-century writer never to win the Nobel prize for literature. The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral. In these eleven short stories...