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A haunting, dreamlike portrayal of the encroaching horror of the Holocaust onto a genteel MittelEuropean resort town 'A masterpiece ... the greatest novel of the Holocaust' The Guardian Badenheim, a...

Ten tales of loss and longing, from one one Japan's greatest writers Bringing together Yukio Mishima's finest stories, this selection shows his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of...

Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare. With a new introduction and notes by John Zilcosky The Castle is...

New in Penguin Japanese Classics- a gripping novel about a love affair gone wrong Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century...

New in Penguin Japanese Classics- a surreal work of apocalyptic science fiction Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with...

New in Penguin Japanese Classics- ghost stories from a master recounter of the macabre Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century...

New in Penguin Japanese Classics- Japan's favourite novel about growing up and finding yourself Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century...

A special student edition of the classic American novel, with an introduction and study notes Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie have nothing in the...

A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some...

An imposter has a fortune to win and his life to lose in this gripping country house mystery A stranger enters the Ashby family home posing as Patrick Ashby, the...

Two secret agents living in the English countryside try - and fail - to live a quiet life, in these hugely enjoyable crime stories Behrens and Calder are two secret...

A darkly comic thriller following a cynical LA gumshoe who makes the catastrophic mistake of helping a 14-year-old find her dog . . . Serendipity Dahlquist is a headstrong roller-blading...

A detective novelist searches for an elusive rival writer, in this classic work of Japanese crime fiction A reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind...

Considered the second book in the Little Women trilogy, Little Men is Louisa May Alcott's classic coming-of-age novel set in the Plumfield Estate School 'The small hopes and plans and...

A new selection of the much-loved Father Brown stories, now part of the Penguin English Library 'No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might...

A spellbinding novel looking at the harshness of life in the northern wilds, through nature's ruthless eyes Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, White Fang - half-dog,...

A new selection of E. M. Forster's exquisite short stories, now in the beautifully designed Penguin English Library Series 'We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot...

A deliciously deranged thriller about supernatural vengeance and postwar guilt, by one of Austria's most celebrated writers Alexander Jessiersky, Austrian aristocrat and shipping magnate, finds the Nazis distasteful - but...

An epic novel of postwar, nuclear-age Japan, by the author of Territory of Light Mitch and Yonko haven't spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in...

One of the great country house detective novels, entertaining and ingenious Marion Sharpe and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country home, the...

A new selection of poetry from the generation-defining author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, translated for the first time into English While Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as...

A captivating selection of short stories in the original Japanese alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories...

A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories...

A stirring novel of idealist loyalty and sibling love, by one of East Germany's most important writers 1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth -...

A shimmering collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, translated into English for the first time A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a...

'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar...

A private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon, in this brilliant homage to Tabucchi's country, culture and people In the city of Lisbon, Requiem's narrator has an...

The much-loved masterpiece from one of the key figures of twentieth-century Italian literature In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's dictatorship of Ant nio...

'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity' How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by...

'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to...

'It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly' Being Happy contains all of the extant writing by Epicurus - one of the most...

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival.' Advocating love as strength and non-violence as...

'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good' In these selected writings by Simone Weil - philosopher,...

We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks. In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between...

Waugh's great novel of the lost golden age before the Second World War, new to the Penguin English Library The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited...

An outrageous adventure across the stars from the master of witty science fiction. Announced in a thunderclap out of another day's tedium, hapless New Yorker Tom Carmody learns that he...

A darkly funny satire from the most acclaimed and popular Russian science-fiction writers. Astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov is on the precipice of a major discovery - a Nobel Prize-worthy break though....

'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.' Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written...

A much-loved classic from a giant of European science fiction Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century. The Cyberiad, one of...

A classic novel exploring loneliness and the nature of connection, from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour Dorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, spending her days...

A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous...

The classic Russian dystopia that inspired Nineteen Eighty-Four and influenced writers from Nabokov to Rand to Vonnegut. In a glass city composed of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the...

A stunning new edition of the book about basically everything, from legendary author Bill Bryson Ever wondered how we got from nothing to something? Or thought about how we can...

A classic of intergalactic, metaphysical science fiction and one of Philip Pullman's favourite books After journeying across the stars, a man from Earth finds himself lost among the scarlet deserts,...

The novel Mishima considered to be one of his best works- a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs The Osugi family have come to a realization. Each of...

A reissue of the PMC edition of Woolf's masterpiece, now with a new jacket 'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham Clarissa Dalloway, elegant...

A devastating critique of the systems of power and control inherent in civilisation, from one of the most radical thinkers of the twentieth century Society Must Be Defended is taken...

An exciting new selection of poems exploring faith, the divine and doubt, written by poets across the world from antiquity to the present Poets have always looked to the skies...