Fiction

An unbreakable, life-changing friendship will lead two young girls from different worlds to rebel against the sexism, prejudice and injustice they face living in 1930s Italy in this moving novel...

"Both a pleasure and a testament to life in Ukraine, before" Sunday Times "Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European " A Ukrainian Murakami" Guardian A love letter to the beautiful...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany,...

Galdos's four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web...

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

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. They have a daughter,...

In this skewed, mordantly funny novel, two women navigate ageing and relationships in divergent ways. Stuck in a bland, low-paying job, Hirai, 38, agrees to move in with her colleague...

A zeppelin leaves Nazi Germany bound for Rio de Janeiro. For those on board it's a luxury holiday, until one of them is murdered in the airship's bathroom. Police Detective...

Crimea, 1854: residents in the besieged city of Sevastopol look out over a harbour punctured by the masts of scuttled ships, and taunt the French forces that keep them trapped...

The writer known as M. is living in exile while her home country wages war on a neighbouring state. Wracked by shame and severed from her language, M. finds herself...

Veronica is late, and Julian is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep....

"One of the great novels to have been written in our language" MARIO VARGAS LLOSA "Beautifully written and gripping" Guardian He thought that memories were invisible like light, and just...

Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the unnamed narrator of The Memory Monster recounts his own undoing. Hired...

A compelling novel about the requirement to be perfect, without losing sight of yourself - by the greatest feminist of the twentieth-century, Simone de Beauvoir. Laurence is a woman who...

THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER M. is a startling look into the fascist mindset, a portrait of unrelenting determination, and an impeccable work of historical fiction. Italy is exhausted. Tired of...

One of Thailand's best-known and most highly regarded novels, portraying the romance of a young Thai man and a married older woman Nopporn, a Thai student studying in Japan, is...

There is no rest for Inspector Maigret when his seaside holiday leads him to a troubling discovery At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into...

An entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Europe's most accomplished 20th century writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power;...

'How often, honestly, does the unveiling in translation of a 'forgotten genius' live up to the hype? Well here's one that does: Raduan Nassar' Times Literary Supplement 'I felt the...

A collection of chilling tales, ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour A dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first...

A forgotten masterpiece of Turkish literature, championed by Orhan Pamuk and translated into English for the first time 'Just as she was being lowered into the earth - following the...

The charming novel that inspired the classic New Wave film In free-spirited Paris, Jules and Jim live a carefree, bohemian existence. They write in cafes, travel when the mood takes...

An erotic study of love and jealousy, by Japan's literary master The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find...

Thousand Cranes exemplifies Kawabata's mastery of the nuances of human psychology Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to...

From the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, to be published alongside THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident - a man who has...

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into...

Galdos's four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web...

One of the most chilling and compassionate of Simenon's extraordinary psychological novels 'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone, nothing but soft, flaccid matter, so much so that his...

An erotic and intricate novella from one of the most enigmatic and important figures in Brazilian literature 'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love' A pair of lovers - a...

A tense and thrilling novel of death and love, new to Penguin Modern Classics Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when...

One of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most personal works, new to Penguin Modern Classics It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of...

Published in 1972,Enemies, A Love Storyis an astonishing novel that blends humour and pathos to create a rich, humane portrayal of a man who cannot escape his past. Herman Broder,...

Singer's haunting second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills....

A powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm...

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...

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...

Seventeen-year-old Milde is from the Outskirts, a place beyond the mountains where the dirt is corpse-rich, where mothers and daughters, banished from society, make their living - without rights, access...

Only edition in print Found in the Codex Atlanticus of Leonardo da Vinci's writings and drawings, 'The Prophecies' are a collection of enigmatic divinatory pronouncements, some punning and playful, others...

'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it'. Twenty-three-year-old Frits -...

'This series will soon become a Netflix series... so get in on the ground floor while you still can' Esquire Imagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Imagine...

'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning....

A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem . On an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of...

Meet Lisbeth Salander, the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide. "Salander remains, in Lagercrantz's hands, the enigmatic and fascinating anti-heroine in fiction" Financial Times "Salander and Blomkvist...

**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...

* 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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER FOR CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION 2024 'It's a clever book ... [Im Seong-sun] offers readers his razor-sharp observations on consumer capitalism and what it means...

'If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this novel is the answer. It is superb' SUNDAY TIMES 'A rare kind of literary celebrity' VOGUE...