Fiction

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One of the classic works by the master of Japanese detective fiction A super-criminal - as deadly as she is beautiful - wagers all in an epic battle with a...

\"The Story of the Stone\" (c. 1760), also known as \"The Dream of the Red Chamber\", is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The fifth part of Cao...

THE NUMBER 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER AWARD 2025 'A masterclass in suspense' PAULA HAWKINS 'A spellbinding nightmare' FERNANDA MELCHOR 'A book of...

Eleven strange buildings. One terrible secret. A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison... Each of...

One day, a heavy, dull feeling fills the cricket's head. And it won't go away. The other animals try to help. Would he like a party? Has he tried being...

In 1930s Italy a young girl falls in love for the first time, with devastating consequences; introduction by Elizabeth Strout 'Life was a perpetual holiday in those days...' It's the...

One of the most beloved translations of all time returns to Penguin Classics- Scott Moncrieff's masterful version of Proust Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth...

After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, Jens and the boy are far from home, in a fishing community at the edge of the world. Taken in...

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO RETURNS "Not just the extraordinary conclusion to the trilogy, but a work that contains its own fully-rounded plot . . . Brilliant" V al...

A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And though Sponer has so...

Jatgeir has come from Vaim to the big city, Bjorgvin, on his wooden boat, Eline, named after the long-lost love of his teenage years. He intends to buy a needle...

A young boy returns obsessively to a supermarket sandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works there. Her aloof demeanour and electric blue eyelids make him feel...

Published in English for the first time, this is the third book in the Maxton Hall trilogy and the inspiration for the NUMBER ONE AMAZON PRIME TV series! Pre-order the...

'A soulful and perfectly unsentimental writer...' - MOHSIN HAMID December, 1907: one morning after a night of drunken carousing in the city, Hanna and his friend Zakariya return home to...

Zeno is 15 years old, in the eyes of the law still a child. But Zeno grew up long ago in the crime-riddled Forcella neighbourhood, where he started his career...

As war between Prussia and Denmark brews over the territory of Schleswig-Holstein, a German nobleman is called to serve as a gentleman-in-waiting at the Danish court. Count Holk's life so...

Lene is an orphaned seamstress; Botho is a nobleman and an officer in one of the Prussian army's most glittering regiments. But whatever their differences of class and education, their...

In this novel of desire, possession and perdition, an unnamed adolescent narrator meets the slightly older Marthe in Paris at the start of the First World War when her husband-to-be...

The Door of No Return, on the island of Goree off the coast of Senegal, is where millions of Africans last touched their home continent's soil, before they were transported...

The Queen of Spades is Pushkin's prose masterpiece, a gripping tale of avarice, obsession, madness and cards. This wonderful collection also includes the keenly and sympathetically observed story The Stationmaster...

'Michel Bussi is one of France's most ingenious crime writers... has plenty of twists and turns in store in this fast-moving novel about a long-planned act of revenge' Joan Smith,...

Equal parts bone-chilling, wryly funny and deeply political, The Midnight Timetable is a masterful work of literary horror from one of our time's greatest imaginations. 'Truly nightmarish.' Andrew Michael Hurley...

Hundreds of actors were auditioned, but only two remained. This novel tells the story of the boy who wasn't chosen. It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about...

In 1760, Guillaume le Gentil, astronomer to King Louis XV, sets sail for India. He hopes to record the transit of Venus, but rough seas - and war with the...

While wandering through a Paris auction house, avid collector Pierre-Francois Chaumont is stunned to discover the eighteenth-century portrait of an unknown man who looks just like him. Much to his...

When Hubert Larnaudie invites the fellow residents of his Parisian apartment building to drink a bottle of 1954 Beaujolais, he has no idea of its special properties. The next morning,...

In a giddy rush, a young woman and her older lover escape the rising fascism of 1930s Berlin for a summer vacation on the Cote d'Azur. As they drive along...

Three letters from three women unfold the story of a love affair and its tragic consequencesA lover, her daughter and an abandoned wife: three women write letters revealing the tragic...

Chekhov was without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its untidy complexity. His short stories, written throughout his life and newly translated for this essential...

The award-winning literary thriller from one of Italy's most exciting feminist writers, for fans of Sophie Mackintosh, Elena Ferrante and Sarah Moss One morning, a teacher disappears into the woods....

What did the disintegration of the Soviet Union feel like for the people who lived through it? Award-winning writer Sasha Salzmann tells this story in a remarkable novel about two...

A coming of age tale and twisted love story, set amid the beaches, streets and mansions of Nineties Casablanca. Sarah is poor, but at least she's French, which allows her...

A gripping story of survival set against the stark backdrop of the Antarctic Ocean, a couple shipwrecked on an island must trust each other with their lives. A young couple...

I heard you laughing from time to time and you stayed lying there on the flattened hay, and after you left, your body's imprint was left behind, and I rested...

'Innovative and original.' Colm TA(3)ibA n 'Unforgettable.' Alejandro Zambra 'A punk novel with prose as mysterious as it is beautiful.' Nicole Flattery 'Pol Guasch must be one of the best...

As the spring warmth melts the ice, divers search the wreckage at the bottom of the Angermanland River - but the murdered man they recover was put there much more...

'A tantalising mystery, executed with perfection.' - THOMAS ENGER He was locked inside an abandoned house. But he's not the only one . . . When a dead man is...

When criminal justice lawyer Joanna Chylka is tasked with defending the son of Zelasny & McVay's biggest client, she is stumped for the first time. Assisted by average law graduate...

'One of Spain's most acclaimed writers' New York Times 'Spain's finest contemporary novelist' Guardian A REDISCOVERED POST-WAR LOVE STORY FROM ONE OF SPAIN'S MOST ACCLAIMED AUTHORS. 1950s Barcelona. A rebellious...

'A novelist at the height of his powers' La Croix 'You have the ingredients Balzac would have cooked with. And it is exactly those great 19th century novels that Lemaitre...

The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Gunter Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925...

'I think the world should read it' LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF THREE WOMEN A Guardian Book of the Year After the unexpected death of her partner, Carolina Setterwall found herself...

'A novelist at the height of his powers' La Croix 'You have the ingredients Balzac would have cooked with. And it is exactly those great 19th century novels that Lemaitre...

This is ostensibly a detective story, about a crime that is committed in 1917, and solved 20 years later. The location is a small town in Northern France. The war...

Amidst the roar of authoritarianism, one writer finds himself on a quest for silence and calm. Fathi, a writer no longer permitted to write, makes his way through an unnamed...