Fiction

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...

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...

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...

Three previously unpublished stories by the master of tense set-ups These three stories--'Picket Line', 'Chick Killer' and 'Ice Man'--show Elmore Leonard at his most terse and harsh, able to conjure...

'As gritty and hard-driving a thriller as you'll find . . . The action never stops, the language sings and stings' Washington Post Clement Mansell knows how easy it is...

A lean and mean thriller about one man and the Mob from 'the crime laureate' INDEPENDENT The last time Florida motel owner George Moran was in the Dominican Republic he...

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...

G. K. Chesterton's wild and whimsical debut novel, set in a future embattled London London, 1984. Democracy has given up the ghost. England's ruler is randomly selected, and this year...

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...

James Bond is back with a bang in Penguin Classics, in the new Crime & Espionage series 'It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting...

A memory loss mystery set in wartime New York Who stole George Matthews' life? 'Doctor, I think I'm losing my mind...' When a wealthy young man turns up at respected...

A murderer targets British historians of the First World War in this 1970s classic Paul Mitchell spends his days researching the carnage of the First World War in the silence...

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,...

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...

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...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Angered by the loss of his son in battle, the Earl of Northumberland...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Conspiracies and intrigue are rife in the court of Henry VIII as a...

Penguin Classics relaunch The plays in this volume focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them. In Ghosts, Osvald Alving...

When your favourite rockstar offers to be your wingman there's only one thing you cannot do - fall for him. Practice Makes Perfect meets How to Lose a Guy in...

A gambling addict lands a job working as a private chef to a Japanese billionaire with . . . unusual taste. A shocking and unputdownable read for fans of Lucy...

A moving reimagining of the man at the heart of Operation Mincemeat, brilliantly told by the celebrated wartime statesman, historian and author William Maryngton has one dream in life- to...

'One of the tragicomic classics of the AIDS era' The Nation Mimi Smithers, forty-something housewife and aesthete manquee, has moved with her Union Carbide husband from Tehran to Westchester. Life...

A new anniversary edition of Eric Schlosser's international bestselling expose of how the fast food industry has shaped the world 'The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the...

Detroit comes to the Holy Land as a mixed bag of gangsters arrive looking for revenge Al Rosen was doing just fine, hiding out in Israel - until he decided...

Daring essays on democracy, history and the nation state by one of China's leading twentieth-century intellectuals The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao's writings make him one of the...

The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance- an African diplomat's guide to Africa In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a...

A masterful translation of Suetonius' renowned biographies of the twelve Caesars, by the award-winning historian and The Rest Is History podcaster Tom Holland The ancient Roman empire was the supreme...

A new edition of Kipling's well-loved fables, edited by Judith Plotz The Camel gets his Hump, the Whale his Throat and the Leopard his Spots in these bewitching stories which...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as...

One of America's most influential and admired short story writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude...

The final volume in the new Penguin Ibsen series- superb modern translations of four of Ibsen's greatest plays In these four unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the complex nature...

A new translation of this haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali Smith Isolated lives and a lost world are evoked in these...

The final masterwork that was nearly destroyed, from one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century Dr Philip Wild, a man of brilliance, wit, fortune and tremendous bulk, is...

A masterpiece of American literature, Call It Sleep is a glorious ode to the migrant experience David Schearl arrives in America in his mother's arms. Waiting for them is a...

Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the...

In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters...

Set in the First World War, Journey's End concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a...

First time in Penguin Classics for the remarkable autobiography of 'the black Florence Nightingale' Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's...

Based on the authoritative Edinburgh text which returns to the first edition of 1815 and manuscript Guy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places...

A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the 'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility', Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William...

Henry David Thoreau's masterworkWaldenis a collection of his reflections on life and society. In 1845, he moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores...