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Author: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A brilliantly tense thriller from Scandinavian crime writing superstar Jo Nesbo. Harry Hole faces a new rising enemy. 'A...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Inspector Maigret falls victim to a pickpocket and is drawn into a peculiar incident. A pickpocket steals Maigret's wallet...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Inspector Maigret investigates an attack on a Parisian tramp When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being...

Author: Tarjei Vesaas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural Norway. In winter, the...

Author: Thomas Mann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Mann's semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The book that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature Discover Mann's Nobel...

Author: Ivan Turgenev & Tatyana Tolstaya (Afterword) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jay Rubin's translation of Soseki's cherished novel, new to Penguin Classics One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction,...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction. Translated by...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret struggles to accept an old case whose conclusion still haunts him At a dinner party, Maigret recounts an...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a...

Author: Raymond Radiguet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 One of the most startling literary debuts of all time, now in Penguin Black Classics. With a new Introduction...

Author: Colette Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'He must...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret investigates the murder of a criminal he had known for twenty years. Maigret finds himself back on the...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A series of strange phone calls leads Inspector Maigret through the Paris streets towards a man out of his...

Author: Bohumil Hrabal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A new translation in the Penguin Maigret series- the inspector uncovers some poisonous family politics. The moon must have...

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Prequel to the bestselling The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game takes us to the turbulent Barcelona...

Author: Jakuta Alikavazovic Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Paul, a student who works as a night guard in a hotel to make ends meet, falls under the spell of...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret loses his composure when a suspect plots to tarnish his reputation During a quiet spell in June Maigret...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When one of his best inspectors is shot, Maigret decides to book himself into Mademoiselle Clement's well-kept Paris boarding...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A new translation of this devastating tale of a young woman whose new life in Paris is tragically cut...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 When a colleague is injured in an undercover operation Maigret takes over and becomes embroiled in the dark underbelly...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The discovery of a dismembered body leads Maigret into one of his strangest cases yet. 'There was no lack...

Author: Luce D'Eramo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Sometimes when you go astray and touch bottom, you finally come out on the other side.' Lucie was brought up by...

Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'So many mysteries in one boarding house!' Not everyone who lodges with Madame Vauquer is quite what they...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and...

Author: Cesare Pavese Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Pavese's seductive masterpiece of memory and betrayal in the Italian countryside, in a vivid new translation by Tim Parks...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret's integrity is called into question when a childhood grudge conflicts with a new case Charged with the protection...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'All right, I decided, if I couldn't win tonight, I'd win tomorrow. If I couldn't win tomorrow, I'd win...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An old acquaintance of Maigret's reappears on the streets of Paris and the inspector finds himself caught up in...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When a professional gambler is shot dead all except Maigret suspect his mistress is to blame. Maigret is called...

Author: Mai Jia Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Five code-breakers gather in the mountains of China. Which one is a double agent? A World War Two spy...

Author: Ismail Kadare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 From 'a novelist of dazzling mastery' (Independent) and the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize- a...

Author: Bernard Minier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 "You did nothing." Christine Steinmeyer knows the suicide note she found in her mailbox on Christmas Eve has nothing to do...

Author: Bernard Minier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Now on Netflix, the Commandant Servaz series: The Frozen Dead Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, August 2015...

Author: Gu Byeong-mo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 She never presumed she herself would live out her natural life, so she wouldn't mind leaving this world through an untimely...

Author: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 A heart-stopping thriller from the international crime fiction star Love twist-filled crime? The Leopard is your next perfect read....

Author: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer's moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era....

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and on Soviet society -...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 "Each phase of life has its own love" In these four stories, Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) depicts desire...

Author: Isabel Allende Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'My name is Eva, which means "life", according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born...

Author: Theodor Fontane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress, and Botho is a handsome, aristocratic cavalry officer. They are in love,...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When a toy salesman confides in Maigret he quickly becomes caught up in a poisonous feud between husband and...

Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit...

Author: Vivek Shanbhag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to...

Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'A leader Should be loved. Who Should be feared? The people.' The Most Venerable Book is one of the most...

Author: Caroline Caugant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Thirty-something Parisian artist Billie is working towards her next exhibition when she receives the news that her mother, with whom she...