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The award-winning, shocking Korean bestseller , a unique tale where magic comes at a price. 'A story of choice and consequence. Unique and unorthodox' 'I didn't want to stop reading,...

The new bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and...

Veronika is young and pretty and has everything she could wish for - yet one morning she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up in the local...

At the country estate of Stepanchikovo, the household has fallen completely under the sway of the despotic charlatan and humbug Foma Fomich Opiskin, one of the most notorious creations in...

Father Sebastian Rodrigues sets sail for Japan in 1640. He is on a mission to find one of the Portuguese Jesuits that went before him, a spiritual example to the...

In an opulent villa near the English Channel lives a family. The father has a safe, a spanner, a candle and a maid called Rose. The son has a swing,...

In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each other. They parse, with precision, with familiarity, the endless aspects...

Nothing could please a chef more than a chance to learn the secrets of a Baron's castle kitchen. Having travelled the length and breadth of the country compiling his masterpiece,...

"Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement" - Madeleine Schwartz, New York Review of Books "Rich, meandering ....

'This book's power lies in its depiction of civilians trying to lead ordinary lives during the horror of war . . . It is shattering stuff, but Rothmann is tender...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ' Magnificent: a dizzying tale of drama, intrigue and passion' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A colossal, genre-crossing achievement' GUARDIAN As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the...

As the temperature in Sweden reaches a record-breaking 45 degrees, forest fires break out. All those who have failed to escape Linkoping for the summer take shelter indoors, shocked and...

The charming and original story of a small, declining community's struggle to survive in the shadow of an all-consuming metropolis, from from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old...

The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho. The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out...

The spellbinding novel from one of the world's best-loved authors, Paulo Coelho, recounting the story of Brida, and her pursuit of wisdom. This is the story of Brida, a young...

An urgent and captivating tale of dark magic and small-town corruption from one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers. Inspired by a real event of the murder...

'A powerful, candid novel ... Europe's outstanding literary seer, Jenny Erpenbeck's new novel resonates with an unexpected simplicity that is profound, unsettling and subtle ... Erpenbeck's powerful tale, delivered in...

'The Alaskan wilds are the setting for Marie Vingtras's compelling Blizzard ... a chilling, tense read' - Observer Winner of Prix Des Libraires, the French Booksellers' Prize for Best Novel...

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice 'In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar ....

It is December 2001 and Argentina is in political and economic meltdown. Pablo Martelli, once in an elite branch of the police force known to all as the 'National Shame',...

" Khoury is one of the greatest writers of our times and perhaps the greatest Arabic-language writer of this generation, definite Nobel Prize material" Avraham Burg, Haaretz Who is Adam...

Students of German language and literature will welcome this dual-language edition of five stories by Franz Kafka (1883 1924). Considered one of the greatest modern writers, Kafka wrote tales that...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN FLORIO PRIZE 2024 The 100,000 copy Italian bestseller for fans of Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy 'Deliciously enjoyable' Katherine...

Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, Nazi Literature in...

Paulo Coelho, one of the world's best loved storytellers, is back with a riveting novel tracing the mysterious life and disappearance of Athena dubbed 'the Witch of Portobello', which was...

A breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho. In this riveting collection of thoughts and stories, Paulo Coelho, the author of 'The Alchemist',...

THE RECORD-BREAKING KOREAN DARK-ROMANCE SENSATION When hunger consumes you, what can be left of morality? HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD ACROSS 10 LANGUAGES 'An instant cult classic. You have to...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION 2023 "One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers" New York Times "Magda Szabo's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history...

When a crazed elderly man and his sister begin firing bullets from their balcony down onto the Vigata street below, Inspector Montalbano finds himself a reluctant television hero. A few...

What if you could turn the pages of your own life, like the pages of your favourite book? Step into the magical and uplifting world of THE MOON GLOW BOOKSHOP...

'An important literary piece of feminist activism' 'Taps into the everyday minutiae of motherhood, baring to all the unspoken labours that women take on both inside and out of parenthood'...

Idealistic, misguided Morten Falck is a newly ordained priest sailing to Greenland in 1787 to convert the Inuit to the Danish church. A rugged outpost battered by harsh winters, Sukkertoppen...

For fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Girl Who Reads on the Metro is the French phenomenon by Christine Feret-Fleury ready to charm...

" Khoury is one of the greatest writers of our times and perhaps the greatest Arabic-language writer of this generation, definite Nobel Prize material" Avraham Burg, Haaretz Who is Adam...

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO LIVES ON. Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force: Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women's prison for saving a young boy's life by any...

** Now shortlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger** Winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year Winner of the Storytel Award for Best Suspense Novel...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN FLORIO PRIZE 2024 The 100,000 copy Italian bestseller for fans of Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy 'Deliciously enjoyable' Katherine...

* ORDER MY NAME IS EMILIA DEL VALLE NOW - THE CAPTIVATING NEW NOVEL FROM ISABEL ALLENDE * A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'A testament to love, survival...

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...

A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV A rich, successful Moscow...

Winner of the Sapir Prize 2019. A man is bribed to step into a courtroom to call an unknown defendant a murderer. A rich, lonely man hits on the idea...

This is the first English translation of The Adventures of the Ingenious Alfanhui, a picaresque novel in which the hero, a magical little boy, goes in search not of his...

They were young and in love and they sought freedom from their families. They married, but as middle-age and family obligations set in and the world changed around them, their...

**AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2023 PICK W OMAN & HOME NOVEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH iPaper TOP FICTION PICK 'An absolutely charming novel that all bookworms...

WINNER OF THE SAPIR PRIZE 2022 'A mesmerising, disquieting tale of family estrangement ... Unforgettable ' OBSERVER 'A striking and memorable novel' MEG WOLITZER 'A stone-cold masterwork of psychological tension....

Hemda Horowitz is nearing the end of her life. As she lies in bed in Jerusalem, the present flickers in and out and memories from the past flood her thoughts:...

A classic of Italian literature, this epic and unforgettable novel recounts one man's long and turbulent life in revolutionary Italy At the age of eighty-three and nearing death, Carlo Altoviti...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, a madman's erotic obsession is twisted into fairytale in Nabokov's precursor to Lolita Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published...