Fiction

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face,...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws,...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 'I cannot allow any man to -...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library edition of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 'How am I to dress up in my finery,...

This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home...

Written in 1908, A Room With A View is one of E.M. Forster's earliest and most celebrated works. Forster's social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes...

Woolf's innovative modernist novel Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form...

Winner of the Orange Prize for New Writers 2006, this is an insightful and witty novel on the search for love, tolerance and faith. Ronit has left London and transformed...

Penguin Classics relaunch The award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel.Leo Tolstoy (Author) Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of...

The anniversary paperback edition of our new On the Origin of Species edited by Professor William Bynum This exciting anniversary edition has a new introduction and scholarly references by William...

Holmes at his finest; this is a brilliant tale featuring romance, hidden treasure, and a one-legged ruffian. As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep...

Penguin Classics relaunch Exclusive to Penguin Classics- the definitive text of Shaw's powerful historical drama about Joan of Arc, which led him to win the Nobel Prize for Literature-part of...

A landmark of modern drama Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not...

Penguin Classics relaunch THE DIARY OF A NOBODY began as a serial in Punch and the book which followed in 1892 has never been out of print. The Grossmith brothers...

Sue Bridehead, his last heroine, is an extaordinarily complex woman - an English Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina. Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty...

The first of the well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Warden reveals Trollope's ability to write satirically and hopefully about his society The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester...

Another iconic title from the brilliant space-wanderer Kurt Vonnegut - rejacketed in a new, witty series style Discover Vonnegurt's funny absurdist novel about the human condition. 'Outrageous, witty, thought-provoking, unputdownable,...

Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, one of the very best anti-war novels ever written, a book both beloved and banned - now rejacketed with brilliant, witty new look for the Vonnegut backlist...

'Matthiessen's book is a triumph that will outlive him. It is a masterpiece' John Hillaby Enjoy this special edition hardback of one of the greatest pieces of travel and nature...

First published in 1948, Cry The Beloved Country stands as the single most important novel in twentieth-century South African literature. Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of...

The gripping adventure story that invented Shangri-La, one of our most enduring literary mysteries. The gripping adventure that invented the mystery of Shangri-La. Flying out of India, a light aircraft...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers 'Beautifully...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers Discover...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers 'It...

'One of the century's greatest writers' Sunday Times Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling. From familiar fairy tales...

'God's teeth!' Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation of The Three Musketeers is published to coincide with the lavish BBC adaptation to be aired this...

A special edition of Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic, including the author's 1948 introduction, his early drafts, and all of the 47 alternative endings WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK HEMINGWAY...

A collection of traditional fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. These strange and moving stories will stay with you all your life 'Once upon a time...' Once upon a time...

The classic story of three ordinary children who go on a very big adventure with Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up Come Away! Come Away! The Darling children...

A dazzling collection of poetry by the greatest Latin-American Poet of our time The perfect gift for Valentine's Day Selected Poems contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in...

Fitzgerald's glittering Jazz Age masterpiece. Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for...

A heartbreaking American masterpiece of the 'Roaring Twenties' by the author of The Great Gatsby **AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT** It is the French...

An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess...

A new translation of one of the greatest love stories ever told, in a beautiful gift edition. From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning...

'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies 'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against...

Grass's landmark novel in a stunning new translation and with a new foreword by the author WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR On his third birthday Oskar decides to...

A witty, chaotic and brilliant novel from the incomparable Thomas Pynchon. By far the shortest of Pynchon's great, dazzling novels - and one of the best. Suffused with rich satire,...

The short story that inspired the play at the heart of BIRDMAN starring Michael Keaton, Ed Norton and Emma Stone This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among...

'Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language... remarkable' John Ezard, Guardian 'Probably more...

Powerful, gripping and haunting- Nevil Shute's most remarkable and influential novel After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in...

Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses! From the grandp re of science fiction - an adventure classic of deep-sea volcanoes, giant squid and the renegade scientist...

Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses! From the grandp re of science fiction - a perilous and astonishing adventure into the earth's core that details encounters...

An introduction to the weird and unsettling world of H.P. Lovecraft, master of horror and pioneer of 'weird fiction' An introduction to the weird and unsettling world of H.P. Lovecraft,...

The most important work of modern science now available in Vintage Classics Discover Charles Darwin's most important ideas... When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board...

Reissued to mark the 40th anniversary of Rushdie's masterpiece, this edition carries a new introduction written for the occasion WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Born at...

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Lucie Manette has been separated from...

'It seems to me as certain of immortality as anything written in English for half a century' John Buchan WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT FISK Seven Pillars of Wisdom...