Fiction

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. The Penguin Book of Love Poetry is a rich and sweeping anthology...

A landmark of British speculative fiction, Sirius tells the haunting story of a super-intelligent dog, created through a scientific experiment that dramatically enhances his mental faculties to near-human levels. Written...

A landmark of hard science fiction, Tau Zero chronicles the harrowing journey of a Bussard ramjet spacecraft and its fifty-man crew as they attempt to colonise a distant star system....

A timeless masterpiece of world literature, Love in the Time of Cholera is a sweeping romantic novel set in a unnamed South American city at the turn of the twentieth...

A landmark work of American literature, If Beale Street Could Talk is a tender yet devastating love story set against the harsh realities of racial injustice in 1970s New York...

Being one of the boys was one thing. Being the boss of the boys was something else altogether. Expert driller Zainab is called to take charge of a high-stakes oil...

From a domestic noir to a suspicious missing persons case and a family forced into hiding, The House Next Door is packed with three suspenseful stories Three chilling stories from...

Zoya, a cousin of Tsar Nicholas of Russia, is made destitute in the Revolution. She flees to Paris, joins the Ballet Russe, and falls in love with a dashing American...

IT'S GORY, IT'S GRIPPING, IT'S GERRITSEN A Rizzoli and Isles bestseller. IT'S MY BODY THERE ON THE TABLE 'A rip-roaring plot with scares and bumps on every page . ....

There's a name for what he is. He prefers not to use it... Stutley Tillinghast lives a solitary life, ostensibly as the minister of a remote rural parish in Rhode...

The first book in a sweet and spicy seasonal smalltown series. Perfect for fans of Laurie Gilmore. Prepare to fall in love amongst the wildflowers this spring. . . When...

Jack Reacher, \"the coolest continuing series character\" (Stephen King), returns in 2025 with his 30th adventure - a brand new, pulse-pounding read from global No.1 bestselling authors Lee and Andrew...

A brilliant hybrid of myth, history and fantasy from Sylvia Townsend Warner, one of the twentieth century's great novelists Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged...

A major rediscovered classic- a bittersweet, sweeping story of love, courage and resistance in wartime France A quiet village in Normandy, 1932. Ludo is ten years old and lives with...

Penelope Mortimer's classic novel about a woman falling apart in 1960s London, now a Radio 4 adaptation 'Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater Had a wife and couldn't keep her...' In this...

Perhaps D.H. Lawrence's most famous novel, now in a beautiful new cover Women in Love is widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel. The novel continues where The Rainbow...

The sensational debut novel of one of the 20th century's greatest modernist writers Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was twenty-three...

Kawabata's serenely observed and enormously affecting portrait of old age Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death...

Startling paranoid thriller from a time when paranoia was just common sense Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937...

Translated by David McLintock and introduced by Hugh Haughton. An extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including THE UNCANNY, SCREEN MEMORIES and FAMILY ROMANCES. Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily...

Venus in Furs describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the...

"Devotees of rich historical fiction and contemporary social discourse alike will be enthralled." - Booklist , starred review From bestselling author Louise Fein comes a new historical novel set in...

The spicy third chapter of The Mafia Academy Series- A forbidden enemy's best friend dark romance set at a mafia boarding school for the sons and daughters of the most...

Winner of 3 OSCARS including BEST DIRECTOR and BEST ACTOR Winner of 5 BAFTAS including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Film Winner of the 2016 Golden Globes for Best...

Shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award for Best thriller A Love Reading Book of the Month 'Mark Ezra's impressive debut creatively mixes biblical themes with echoes of Richard Osman's...

Set against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, international bestselling author Marc Levy's new novel is a page-turning thriller full of courage, resilience, and love. A mother's love knows...

'MAGNETIC, CLAUSTROPHOBIC, WICKEDLY ALIVE' LUCY ROSE, AUTHOR OF THE LAMB 'IF STEPHEN KING, OTTESSA MOSHFEGH AND JOHN WATERS HAD A BABY - ITS THIS BRILLIANT BOOK' JODIE HARSH 'HORNY. GORY....

Curl up this winter with a heart-warming Christmas romance for fans of The Crown and Downton Abbey ! 'A page-turning festive read, full of will they/won't they romance, intriguing glimpses...

'Inventive' THE TIMES From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy-an expansive historical epic of intrigue and...

'The narrative voice is yarning, chatty and sardonic, but under all the jokes and stories there's a sharp critique of bureaucrats and institutions, and an appreciation of the heroic nature...

'The gut-truths presented in Benevolence are tied to a larger reckoning needed in Australian society one that involves a centring of First Nation voices, a willingness to address not just...

Inspired by the indomitable spirit of Audrey Hepburn, this gripping story follows two extraordinary sisters as they reunite after World War II, embarking on a journey of justice, survival, and...

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A searing collection of E. M. Forster's short stories about forbidden sexuality and desire 'Neither of them knew when the end came, and he when he realised it felt no...

An intricate, puzzle-like murder mystery set in Imperial China, featuring the indefatigable Judge Dee Judge Dee is about to step into the shoes of a dead man... Most people would...

Fast-paced and hard-boiled, this Harlem Detectives novel follows a pile of stolen money - or it would if anyone could find it... Alberta Wright drops dead on the street during...

A crashed plane becomes a case for a civil servant turned detective, in a classic Cold War thriller A missing plane resurfaces - and so do long-submerged secrets... An RAF...

An English novelist uncovers a trail of crime in Istanbul - and all roads lead to the mysterious master criminal Dimitrios English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul...

A twisting psychological thriller of a family caught in a murderous trap of their own making Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills,...

Nella Larsen's powerful first novel evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for...

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...

One of the great chase stories- Nazi agents will stop at nothing to kill a British weapons expert on his long, fraught journey home from Istanbul It is 1940 and...

A new edition of Dylan Thomas's dazzling radio play It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent... In the Welsh seaside town of...

The foundational anthology of the Orthodox Church The Philokalia is the most influential book in the recent history of the Orthodox Church, aside from the Bible. It is an anthology...

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah, and the much-travelled philosopher Imlac. Their journey takes them to...

A new edition of Darwin's remarkable account of the connection between emotion and facial expression which grew out of The Descent of Man Published in 1872, The Expression of the...

One of Henry Miller's most scandalous books, Tropic of Capricorn is now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time A story of sexual and spiritual awakening, Tropic of Capricorn...